Nicole Kidman Reuniting With ‘Big Little Lies’ Team To Adapt ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Series For Hulu
Big news for big fans ofBig Little Lies.Nicole Kidmanis reuniting with key members of the team behind HBO’s Emmy-winning serie sto adapt the latest novel fromBig Little LiesauthorLiane Moriarty. Kidman is executive producing and starring in aNine Perfect Strangersseries, which has just been picked up for a series order from Hulu.
According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Hulu has given a straight-to-series order forNine Perfect Strangerswhich is set to star Kidman in the role of a health resorts director who watches over nine strangers who come from the city to relax, only for drama to unfold.
Nine Perfect Strangersis set at a boutique wellness resort where, per Hulu’s logline, “nine stressed city dwellers attempt to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resorts director Masha (Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine ‘perfect’ strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.”
The series is based off of Liane Moriarty’s 2018 novel of the same name and will be reunite Kidman withBig Little LiesshowrunnerDavid E. Kelleyand executive producerBruna Papandrea. Kelley andJohn Henry Butterworth(Edge of Tomorrow) are co-writing the series and will also serve as co-showrunners. This series makes it Kidman’s second project related toBig Little Lieswhich will air its second season this summer following up 2017’s acclaimed Emmy-winning series also starring Kidman as well as Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, and Zoe Kravitz.
It seems like Kidman can’t get enough of Moriarty’s work, and why shouldn’t she? The writer is skilled at crafting complex women and the inner workings of their lives. And while the synopsis forNine Perfect Strangerssounds incredibly vague, we can probably look forward to the kind of riveting character drama and sharp, socially conscious writing that we saw inBig Little Lies.
