A trailer has been released for the Hulu series Under the Bridge, based on Rebecca Godfrey's 2005 book. Entertainment Weekly reported that the project, from writer/creator Quinn Shephard and showrunner Samir Mehta, stars Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Emmy nominee Riley Keough (Daisy Jones and the Six). Under the Bridge premieres on Hulu April 17.
"Neither of us wanted to make yet another classic murder mystery," Mehta said. "We really wanted to find a way to elevate the genre and do something new with it.... It was a crime book that didn't feel like a crime book. There was a real gentleness and femininity to the way that the story was told. I felt like it offered a lot of space to tell a story both about Reena, but also about childhood and the stories of the other teenagers."
In addition to Godfrey and Under the Bridge, the team also worked with murder victim Reena Virk's (Vritika Gupta) father Manjit Virk to option the rights to his memoir about the incident, 2008's Reena: A Father's Story. Ezra Faroque Khan plays Manjit in the Hulu series, which also weaves in flashbacks to the family's life before their daughter's death.