Elizabeth Banks is continuing her TV takeover. As Variety reports, Banks has a number of projects in the works, and has just optioned the feminist book “Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman” with the intent to option it as a half-hour series.
“Shrill” is a feminist memoir written by Lindy West which chronicles her “coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you,” its official description reads. “Humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.”
Banks optioned “Shrill” for Brownstone Productions, her production company that she runs with her husband, Max Handelman. The company landed an overall deal with Warner Bros. last year and has since sold four different projects to four different networks. It has new series in the works with ABC, The CW, CBS, and an unannounced series with an unnamed cable network.
At ABC, Brownstone has female-centric “The Trustee” in the works. As Variety describes it, “The project follows a very good, but slightly reckless narcotics detective who finds out that her police station’s ‘trustee’ — a nonviolent felon assigned to help cops with odd jobs, filing, custodial work — has insight into a case she’s trying to crack, and the two women are forced to team up.”
The CW’s project is “The Feral,” a drama which follows “20-year-old Trident Marven, who steps out of the woods after years of isolation, unaware that she carries a secret which puts her at the center of an unfurling conspiracy.”
And as Women and Hollywood previously reported, over at CBS they’ve got “Something To Celebrate” in the works. Based on a Spanish series of the same name, it follows “four adult siblings [who] work in their family’s popular bakery and enjoy the fun of being in a second-generation American family that loves a celebration.”
On Brownstone’s film agenda there’s still the upcoming “Pitch Perfect 3,” which Banks was set to direct but had to drop out of due to parental responsibilities, and the “Charlie’s Angels” reboot, which she is directing. She’ll also appear in the Power Rangers reboot.
