Laura Dern and Margaret Qualley will star in and executive produce Forever, Interrupted, a Netflix limited series based on the 2013 bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Deadline reported. Julia Bicknell is writing the adaptation and will serve as showrunner for the series, which is from A24 and company-based producer Jessica Rhoades.
The project "was taken out about a month ago. In a tough marketplace, it generated interest from multiple buyers, ultimately landing at Netflix," Deadline noted.
Executive producing are Rhoades and Alison Mo Massey for Pacesetter Productions; Reid, Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion; Dern and Jayme Lemons for Jaywalker Pictures; as well as Qualley and Brett Hedblom for I Understand Pictures.