‘We Had been Liars’ Sequence Adaptation In The Works At Amazon – Deadline

The sequence adaptation of E. Lockhart’s YA suspense thriller We Had been Lies has landed at Amazon for improvement.

Julie Plec and her My So-Referred to as Firm banner and Common Tv, the place The Vampire Diaries co-creator is predicated, optioned the e-book, which was printed in 2014, optioned the e-book as a part of a trio of offers with Lockhart earlier this summer season.

Amazon Prime Video has now taken the challenge in for improvement and has arrange a mini writers’ room.

Plec and Roswell, New Mexico co-creator Carina Adly MacKenzie are adapting the e-book, which was printed in 2014. Plec is writing the primary episode and MacKenzie is writing the second episode.

We Had been Liars is a “tragic” love story and an amnesia thriller set on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts.

It focuses on the the theme of penalties of 1’s errors. It’s centered on the rich, seemingly excellent Sinclair household, who spend each summer season sitting gathered on their personal island. Nevertheless, not each summer season is identical—when one thing occurs to Cadence throughout the summer season of her fifteenth yr, the 4 “Liars” – Cadence, Johnny, Gat and Mirren – re-emerge two years later to immediate Cadence to recollect the incident.

Plec, MacKenzie, Emily Cummins and E. Lockhart will exec produce with Common Tv producing.

Plec is represented by Leisure 360 and Felker Toczek Suddleson and MacKenzie is represented by WME and Leisure 360.