HBO Max has added Chandler Kinney and Maia Reficco to the Max Authentic PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN. Lisa Soper (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) will direct the primary two episodes of the sequence from Warner Bros. Tv.
Chandler Kinney (“Zombies 2,” “Deadly Weapon”) will play “Tabby,” an aspiring director and horror film buff. Like the opposite Little Liars, Tabby’s hiding a secret.
Maia Reficco (“Strangers,” “Evita,” “Kally’s Mashup”) will play “Noa,” a striving, sardonic monitor star who’s working laborious to get her life again to regular after a summer season spent in juvenile detention.
Logline: Twenty years in the past, a sequence of tragic occasions virtually ripped the blue-collar city of Millwood aside. Now, within the current day, a bunch of disparate teen ladies — a brand-new set of Little Liars — discover themselves affected by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the key sin their dad and mom dedicated twenty years in the past…in addition to their very own. At the hours of darkness, coming-of-age, horror-tinged drama PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN, we discover ourselves miles away from Rosewood, however throughout the current Fairly Little Liars universe — in a brand-new city, with a brand new era of Little Liars.
Credit: PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN is from govt producer/author Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (“Riverdale,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) and co-executive producer/author Lindsay Calhoon Convey (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”). The sequence is produced by Aguirre-Sacasa’s Muckle Man Productions and Alloy Leisure (“Gossip Lady,” “Fairly Little Liars,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “You”) in affiliation with Warner Bros. Tv. Michael Grassi, Caroline Baron, and Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo are additionally govt producers of the sequence, which is predicated upon the bestselling sequence of books by Sara Shepard.
The sequence is scheduled to start manufacturing later this summer season at Upriver Studios in New York.
Bios and Consultant Info:
Chandler Kinney most lately starred in “Zombies 2,” the second installment of the extremely profitable Disney Channel movie franchise. Kinney will return for the third installment of the franchise. Kinney beforehand starred within the hit Fox sequence “Deadly Weapon.” Further credit embrace FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum,” “The Haunted Hathaways” for Nickelodeon, and Disney’s “Lady Meets World.”
Kinney is represented by Paradigm, Untitled Leisure, and Legal professional Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
Maia Reficco is at present taking pictures the Netflix characteristic “Strangers,” reverse Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke, and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. She most lately starred within the Broadway Heart Stage manufacturing “Subsequent to Regular” as ‘Natalie’ on the Kennedy Heart in Washington, DC. Beforehand, she starred as ‘Younger Eva’ within the Encores! Manufacturing of “Evita” at New York Metropolis Heart, directed by Sammi Cannold. Reficco is greatest recognized for her function as ‘Kally’ within the hit Nickelodeon sequence “Kally’s Mashup” in Latin America, for which she earned a number of Nickelodeon Children’ Selection Awards.
Reficco is represented by CAA and Legal professional Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, & Gellman L.L.P.
Lisa Soper lately directed an episode of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” for Netflix, Warner Bros. Tv, and Berlanti Productions. Soper can be a prolific, award-winning manufacturing designer who most lately labored with James Gunn on the Max Authentic “Peacemaker”; she was additionally the designer on “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” earlier than transitioning into directing on the present.
Soper is represented by Charlotte Rose at Inexperienced Mild Artist Administration and Hannah Ozer at Kaplan/Perrone.
About Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is a screenwriter, award-winning playwright, and comedian e book author. He developed and serves as govt producer/showrunner of hit sequence “Riverdale” for The CW. He additionally govt produced and developed Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and The CW’s “Katy Keene.” All three dramas are primarily based on characters from Archie Comics, the place Aguirre-Sacasa serves as Chief Artistic Officer, and produced by Warner Bros. Tv, the place he’s below an general deal. His earlier TV writing credit embrace the Emmy®-nominated drama “Huge Love,” “Trying,” “Glee,” and the primary season of WBTV’s “Supergirl.” For MGM Movies, he wrote a brand new model of the horror traditional “Carrie,” in addition to a remake of the serial-killer thriller “The City that Dreaded Sunset.”