Now here’s an intriguing collaboration as Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn and 12 YEARS A SLAVE, SHAME and HUNGER director Steve McQueen are working on a big-screen adaptation of Lynda La Plante’s series WIDOWS.
La Plante’s mini-series originally aired in the UK in 1983 and follows four widows whose other-halves are killed when an armed robbery goes wrong. Getting together, they decide to gather all the information they know to try and pull off the heist themselves. It’s reportedly been a passion project for McQueen for a while now.
It sets up four huge roles for some leading ladies and with a mix of Flynn and McQueen is sure to have a dark, edgy thriller feel as both offer strong female empowerment and aren’t afraid to break the standard Hollywood mould, thankfully!
We’ll bring you all the latest of WIDOWS as it develops and we’re hugely looking forward to it already.
Source: THR
