The rights to the best-selling novel were optioned in 2022 by Julie Plecs My So-Called Company and Universal Television.
IsWe Were Liarsin production?
The series has wrapped production.
L-R: Emily Alyn Lind and Subham Maheshwari in ‘We Were Liars’Prime Video
Who will be inWe Were Liars?
McGregor plays Mirren, an artest who watches the world closely.
Zada will play Johnny, the reckless, chaotic and charming ringleader of the four liars trouble-making.
L-R: Candice King, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Mamie Gummer, Joseph Zada, Emily Alyn Lind and Subham Maheshwari in ‘We Were LiarsPrime Video
The Vampire Diariescreator Julie Plecspoke to Deadlineabout reuniting with Candice King on the project.
Then we realized that we didnt care, she told Deadline, laughing.
And then nobody said no.
Everyone just thought it was a great idea.
All of our anxieties were for not.
Theyre the same person, just separated by two generations and some children.
Her parents own Beechwood Island, where the family vacations every summer.
She has two sons, but the upcoming summer may challenge her sobriety.
FitzGerald will play Penny Sinclair, who breeds golden retrievers and is in the midst of a messy divorce.
King plays Bess Sinclair, the youngest daughter of the Sinclairs.
She has three children, and her meticulousness and organization know no bounds.
Wendy Crewson(Tracker, Gray) is set for a heavily recurring role.
Who else is behindWe Were Liars?
Executive producers also include Emily Cummins for My So-Called Company and the novels author, Lockhart.
Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amazon MGM Studios are the studios.
Nzingha Stewart directed the pilot episode.
The show wasgiven a series orderby Prime Video in March 2023.
What isWe Were Liarsabout?
The three Sinclair daughters and their children spend every summer on Beechwood Island.
How will Lockharts prequel bookFamily of Liarsfit into all of this?
Plec will also adapt the prequel book, which tells the secretive story of a different Sinclair generation.
