Amanda Seyfried has found her next TV project.
The Emmy winner and Oscar nominee is set to star in and executive produce Skinny Dip, an adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s novel that’s in development at Prime Video after initially being set up at HBO Max. The dramedy comes from Warner Bros. TV, writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis (Once Upon a Time) and executive producer Bill Lawrence.
Skinny Dip moved to Prime Video, sources say, after the Amazon-owned streamer stepped in with a big offer.
The logline for the show reads, “Skinny Dip is the story of Joey Perrone, whose second anniversary didn’t go quite as planned. She expected earrings, but instead, her husband Chaz had, shall we say, alternate plans. After unexpectedly finding herself on the other side of those plans, she vows to get revenge. Teaming up with a disgraced ex-cop, Joey sets out to make Chaz pay. Skinny Dip is an action-romantic-comedy-triangle about murder, vengeance, and the elusiveness of true accountability in this world.”
Should it go to series, Skinny Dip would be the third show based on one of Hiaasen’s novels to make to TV screens in recent years. Lawrence created and executive produces Apple TV’s Bad Monkey, starring Vince Vaughn, and ABC has RJ Decker (based on Double Whammy) set to premiere sometime next year.
Kitsis and Horowitz are executive producing Skinny Dip with Seyfried; Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer of Doozer Productions; and Hiaasen.
Seyfried will next be seen in The Housemaid and The Testament of Ann Lee, both of which hit theaters later in December. She won an Emmy for her role as Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout at Hulu; other recent credits include Long Bright River at Peacock and The Crowded Room at Apple TV.
Horowitz and Kitsis are repped by WME and attorney Jared Levine.
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