Hulu and Liz Tigelaar Are Adapting Another Buzzy Best-Seller (Exclusive)

Liz Tigelaar is readying her next Hulu series.

The showrunner of Little Fires Everywhere and Tiny Beautiful Things is developing a limited series based on Lucy Foley’s best-seller, The Guest List, which Hulu won the rights to in what proved another wild bidding war. The news comes as the broader IP market has only grown frothier amid the dual Hollywood strikes, which ground production to a halt and left the industry with little else to sell.

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The TV iteration, like Foley’s 2020 book, will be set on a remote island off a rugged coast, where guests attend an elaborate celebrity wedding. “But with a storm brewing, the picture-perfect affair darkens as the guests and their shared histories dangerously collide — and then the lights go out. And a body is found,” reads the project’s official logline. “As old secrets are brought to the surface, and the mysteries swirl — the question remains, who among these people deserved to die? And who had something to kill for?”

The Guest List had been a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, much like Tigelaar’s previous adaptations, Little Fires Everywhere and Tiny Beautiful Things. She will create, write and run the eight- to 10-episode series, should it move forward. Her Best Day Ever Productions producing partner Stacey Silverman will serve as an executive producer on the ABC Signature project alongside Foley.

The announcement comes as Tigelaar is on a creative tear, with back-to-back Emmy nominations for her aforementioned pair of Hulu projects. The prolific writer-producer, who is under an overall deal at ABC Signature, is also readying another Hulu series, Under the Bridge, which stars Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone and is based on the book of the same name. On the features side, Tigelaar is adapting the hugely popular Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, for Netflix.

As for Foley, she just announced her new thriller, The Midnight Feast, will be published globally next summer. The Harper Collins entry is being billed as “a luxuriously dark murder mystery set during the summer solstice.”

Tigelaar and Best Day Ever are repped by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Foley is also repped by UTA and Curtis Brown. UTA brokered the rights deal.

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