EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy winner Olivia Colman is set to star in and executive produce a drama created, executive produced and showrun by The Affair co-creator Sarah Treem, sources tell Deadline. The project, which is in development at FX, is inspired by the Danish format Ulven Kommer (Cry Wolf), I hear.
The untitled one-hour is described as a sweeping family drama that is both a mystery and thriller. Further details are being kept under wraps. The 2020 Danish series Cry Wolf follows a social worker who tries to find out who is telling the truth in a family with a teen daughter which may be plagued by domestic violence.
A rep for FX declined comment.
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The project reunites Colman with FX where she starred in Great Expectations and most recently guest starred on The Bear, earning an Emmy nomination last year. It was her fifth Emmy nomination; Colman won for The Crown in 2021. (She also has a Children’s and Family Emmy Award for Heartstoper.) On the feature side, Colman has three Oscar nominations, winning in 2019 for The Favourite. She stars opposite John Lithgow in Jimpa, which premiered at Sundance, and opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Jay Roach’s upcoming The Roses, a reimagining of The War Of The Roses.
Treem co-created and showran the Showtime series The Affair, which ran for five seasons and won a Golden Globe for Best Drama series. Her resume includes writer-producer stints on Netflix’s House Of Cards and HBO’s original iteration of In Treatment. As a playwright, her most recent work, When We Were Young and Unafraid, was staged in New York with Cherry Jones in the lead.
Colman and Treem are repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Colman is additionally repped by United Agents in the UK.