Elisabeth Moss Joins Apple’s Time Traveling Serial Killer Series SHINING GIRLS
Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man) will star in the Apple’s upcoming series adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ metaphysical novel Shining Girls.
It follows a reporter who survives a brutal assault, only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker, a time-traveling serial killer.
Showrunner Silka Luisa (Strange Angel) will adapt the book and executive produce along with Moss, Jennifer Davidson, Lindsey McManus, and Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood).
Beukes and Alan Page Arriaga will also serve as executive producers.
Here’s a rundown on the book via Amazon: A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn’t die hunts the killer who shouldn’t exist. Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times. At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He’s the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder — until one of his victims survives. Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth…
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