According to Deadline, Riley Keough (The Terminal List) is set to star in and executive produce Under the Bridge, Hulu’s limited series based on Rebecca Godfrey’s book.
What’s Happening:
- Keough will play the late Godfrey in the adaptation of the 1997 true story of 14-year-old Reena Virk, who went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In the book, Godfrey takes readers into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls and a boy accused of the savage murder, revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.
- Godfrey was a rebellious novelist who returned to her hometown of Victoria, BC, in 1997 and immersed herself in the too-strange-to-believe case of Virk’s murder. As a young woman herself, Godfrey was entrusted by the teenagers accused of the crime and gained unique access to the story. Her increasing fascination with the case — and the killers — drew her down the same path as Truman Capote while writing In Cold Blood.
- Keough will executive produce Under the Bridge with Gina Gammell through their production company, Felix Culpa.
- From ABC Signature, the limited series is executive produced by Samir Mehta and Liz Tigelaar, who will also serve as showrunners.
- Quinn Shephard is adapting the book and executive producing. Other executive producers are Stacey Silverman and Geeta Vasant Patel, who will also direct.
- Godfrey, who passed away last month at the age of 54, was an executive producer on the series and will be credited posthumously.
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