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‘I Am the Night’: Patty Jenkins, Chris Pine Reunite in Thrilling Limited Series


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Patty Jenkins To Direct & Chris Pine To Star In TNT Series ‘One Day She’ll Darken’

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The Wonder Woman duo of director Patty Jenkins and male lead Chris Pine are reuniting for One Day She’ll Darken, a six-episode limited drama, which has received a straight-to-series order at TNT

Jenkins is set to direct the pilot and potentially additional episodes, and Pine is attached to star in all six hours. Jenkins’ husband, writer Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter’s Heart and The Disaster Diaries, has written the series, which was inspired by the autobiography of Fauna Hodel.

One Day She’ll Darken tells the story of Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949. As Fauna begins to investigate the secrets to her past, she follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery and a suspect in the infamous “Black Dahlia” murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947.

Pine will play Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter/paparazzo. Jay was disgraced over his story about Hodel years ago, but now he sees a glimmer of redemption. This might be the opportunity Jay’s been hopelessly waiting for, but inside this riddle lies a moral quandary he never expected: a labyrinth into the evil in men’s hearts that will shake the unsteady Jay to his foundations.

 

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Update: TNT has announced that I Am the Night will be released as part of TNT’s newly minted TNT Suspense Collection. It will follow The Alienist in TNT’s slate of thriller-themed limited series.

Patty Jenkins has found a wonderful collaborator in Chris Pinethe star of the Wonder Woman director’s new noir-tinged TNT series. Pine stars in I Am the Night, a limited TNT series that was originally titled One Day She’ll Darken, after Fauna Hodel’s autobiography of the same name.

But while the original title is gone, the talent is still there, as Pine steals the show as the intrepid hack journalist investigating a young girl’s dark and dangerous lineage.

I Am the Night also stars Pine’s Wonder Woman co-star Connie Nielsen, as well as Jefferson MaysLeland OrserYul VazquezDylan SmithGolden Brooks, Justin Cornwell, and Jay Paulson. Here is the synopsis for I Am the Night:

I Am the Night tells the incredible story of Fauna Hodel (Eisley) who was given away at birth. As Fauna begins to investigate the secrets to her past, she follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel (Mays), a man involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery. Pine plays Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack-reporter/paparazzo.

 

 

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On 7/3/2018 at 5:30 PM, Astromech said:

The description reads like a blurb from a James Ellroy novel. If that wasn't enough to sell me, that trailer sure was.

That alone is enough for me too.

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