Tessa Thompson is set to star and executive produce "Next Door," a TV series that Sam Boyd is directing for A24 and Netflix.
The project has been put on fast-track development with a writers’ room currently being staffed. "Next Door" is produced by Joe Hipps’ A24-based Cut To.
A24 originally acquired Boyd’s spec script on behalf of Cut To last year in a nine-way studio bidding war. As the indie studio regularly does, it developed the project internally and attached Thompson before taking it out.
Plot details are under wraps, except that "Next Door" is a dark comedic thriller about marriage and paranoia in the modern American suburbs, inspired by movies in the vein of "Little Children" and "Rear Window".
"Little Children" is the 2006 film from Todd Field, based on the Tom Perrotta novel released the same year. Kate Winslet stars as an unhappy housewife who has an affair with her married neighbor (Patrick Wilson).
"Rear Window" is a 1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich’s short story “It Had to Be Murder.” It centers on Jeff (James Stewart), who, while spying on his neighbors, believes he witnessed the murder of his wife (Irene Winston) at the hands of her husband (Raymond Burr).
Boyd is a writer, director, showrunner and executive producer for Next Door.
Thompson will executive produce with Kishori Rajan under their banner, Viva Maude, alongside Hipps of Cut To.
She recently earned a Golden Globe nomination for starring in the film "Hedda," directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Plan B for Amazon MGM.
Thompson currently stars in and executive produced the breakout Netflix series "His & Hers". Additional credits include "Thor: Ragnarok," the Creed franchise, "Passing", "Sorry to Bother You," and "Westworld".
On the producing front, she also produced, via her production banner Viva Maude, "Hedda," as well as the upcoming film "Is God Is" for Amazon MGM and the documentary Seeds, which premiered at Sundance last month.
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