Her story has already been told on Lifetime in the TV film Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill, on NBC’s Dateline in the episode “Reckless,” and on HBO in the documentary I Love You, Now Die. Now Michelle Carter is getting the limited-series treatment in Hulu’s The Girl From Plainville, with Elle Fanning taking on the title role. Premiering on Tuesday, March 29, the eight-episode series rewinds the clock to when Carter was a teenager charged with and later convicted of manslaughter for persuading her boyfriend to end his life. In July 2014, the body of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, was found in a Kmart parking lot. The 18-year-old—who had graduated from high school with a 3.8 grade point average, earned a captain’s license and was accepted to Fitchburg State University, according to The Boston Globe—had committed suicide. After an investigation, prosecutors charged Carter,...
- 3/29/2022
- TV Insider
Bella Thorne has signed on to star in “The Friendship Game, a science fiction-horror film directed by Scooter Corkle (“Hollow in the Land”) from a script by “The Oa” writer Damien Ober.
Per the film’s logline, “The Friendship Game” tells the story of “a group of teens in a small town as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other with increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go.”
Daniel Bekerman of Scythia Films is producing. Thorne, Ober, Gabriel Chicoine, Zak Kilberg of Social Construct Films and Tannaz Anisi and Greg Schenz of 13 Films are executive producing.
Also Read: Dacre Montgomery, Geraldine Viswanathan to Star in 'The Broken Heart Gallery'
CAA and 13 films will launch sales at Cannes 2019; the film is set to film in Vancouver and begin production in August.
Thorne is repped by CAA and Thor Bradwell of Thirty Three Management,...
Per the film’s logline, “The Friendship Game” tells the story of “a group of teens in a small town as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other with increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go.”
Daniel Bekerman of Scythia Films is producing. Thorne, Ober, Gabriel Chicoine, Zak Kilberg of Social Construct Films and Tannaz Anisi and Greg Schenz of 13 Films are executive producing.
Also Read: Dacre Montgomery, Geraldine Viswanathan to Star in 'The Broken Heart Gallery'
CAA and 13 films will launch sales at Cannes 2019; the film is set to film in Vancouver and begin production in August.
Thorne is repped by CAA and Thor Bradwell of Thirty Three Management,...
- 5/10/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
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