HBO is reuniting two of the creative forces behind their commercial & critical hit limited series, Big Little Lies. Nicole Kidman and writer David E. Kelley will be behind a new limited series called The Undoing, an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book “You Should Have Known”, with Kidman attached to star.
The series centers on Grace Sachs (Kidman), who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist on the brink of publishing her first book, has a devoted husband and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Weeks before her book is published, a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
Like with Big Little Lies, Kelley executive produces The Undoing through David E. Kelley Productions and will serve as showrunner. Kidman again executive produces with Per Saari through their Blossom Films company. The number of episodes has yet to be announced but it’s likely it will be in the same range of Big Little Lies, which consisted of 7 episodes.
Big Little Lies won eight Emmys last September, including limited series and actress in a TV movie/limited series for Kidman. It also was a big winner at the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards.
