Amy Adams will start shooting HBO series 'Sharp Objects' in March, Janis Joplin biopic is dead

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By Darian Scalamoni

            Ever since Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was released, Hollywood has been clamoring to get their hands on more of her material. After many months of talks and more, it was Marti Noxon, the co-creator of UnREAL and writer of Mad Men and Buffy the Vampire Slayer who thought that Flynn’s debut novel, Sharp Objects would work better as a TV series rather than a film. The project took off after that and has Amy Adams in the lead role.

            Sharp Objects follows a reporter coming out of a stay in a psych ward who returns to her hometown to cover the murder of two young girls. It sounds like powerful stuff and an awesome role for Adams to take on. She’ll also be working with Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild) who will direct the whole series. This won’t be his first time doing something with HBO either as the upcoming Big Little Lies was executively produced by Vallee and he directed the first two episodes. Unfortunately, with Sharp Objects going into production soon, we learned that the other collaboration between the director and star of the series that was planned, the Janis Joplin biopic would be scrapped. It’s unfortunate because Adams would be perfect in the role. There are still plans though for another Janis Joplin biopic as Michelle Williams is set to play the musician for Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene).

            Adams had a huge 2016 starring in two critical darlings, Arrival and Nocturnal Animals. She’s garnering awards buzz for both roles but I believe she’ll get nominated for her 6^th Oscar for her role as Dr. Louise Banks in Arrival. She also reprised her role as Lois Lane in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and is only scheduled to be in Justice League for this year. Sharp Objects should be released in the beginning of 2018 on HBO.