Amazon has greenlit a series adaptation of the Benjamin Stevenson novel “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone” with Penn Badgley set for the lead role.
\n\nAcademy Award nominee David Hemingson (“The Holdovers,” “Kitchen Confidential”) is attached to adapt the murder mystery book and serve as showrunner and executive producer, Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, and Jeanne Snow of Made Up Stories will also executive produce. Badgley will executive produce in addition to starring, with Stevenson also executive producing. Fifth Season and Made Up Stories will co-produce.
\n\n“I’m thrilled to be partnered with Fifth Season and Made Up Stories in bringing Ben’s heartfelt and darkly hilarious whodunit to life,” Hemingson said. “And we are so lucky to have Penn as our lead. I can’t think of any actor better suited to bring Ern’s intensity, brilliance and hilariously dry sense of humor to life.”
\n\nDescribed as darkly comedic, the logline for the series states:
\n\n“Set deep in the dense mountains of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, the series follows Ern Cunningham (Badgley), a mystery-writing expert who reluctantly attends a family reunion to welcome his brother Michael home from prison — the same brother Ern helped convict. When a frozen body appears and a snowstorm…
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