Nzingha Stewart is set to direct the first episode of Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming series adaptation of We Were Liars. diverse I learned exclusively.
The series was originally picked up on Prime Video in March 2023. It is based on E. Lockhart’s YA novel of the same name. The series is described as “a tragic love story and a thrilling tale of amnesia set on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts.” Mamie Gummer, Caitlin Fitzgerald, and Candice King will co-star.
Stewart previously served as executive producer and director on the Prime Video series “Daisy Jones and the Six” as well as the upcoming Prime Video series “Cross,” based on the Alex Cross novels by James Patterson. Her other television directing credits include “Little Fires Everywhere,” “From Scratch,” “Inventing Anna,” “Maid,” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” In film, she directed Netflix’s hit “Tall Girl,” and is attached to direct New Line’s “Life in Motion” and “The Bad Ass Biker Chicks of Marrakech,” the latter of which she co-wrote with Lindsay Cohen.
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“We Were Liars” is written and executive produced by Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie, with Plec writing the first episode and MacKenzie writing the second. Plec’s My So-Called Company’s Emily Cummins also executive produces, as does Lockhart. Universal Television is the studio.
The book has sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide and spent more than 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in the young adult category.