For Lena Dunham, there’s no such factor as “an excessive amount of” actuality TV. The beloved filmmaker even needed to adapt the viral “Vanderpump Guidelines” for the large display, particularly after the “Scandoval” of all of it.
“Vanderpump Guidelines” Season 10 revealed the explosive affair between co-stars Tom Sandoval and Rachel Leviss; Sandoval’s ex Ariana Madix confronted each solid members throughout the Season 10 reunion in 2023. The episode was Emmy-nominated.
Whereas the scandal shocked audiences on the time, Dunham was wanting so as to add a excessive(er)forehead twist with the assistance of her fellow Bravo bingers, Andrew Scott and Jennifer Lawrence.
“We must always mainly create like a mini film through which actors deal with this as canon and stand up and carry out it with all the eagerness and virtuosity of Shakespeare,” Dunham mentioned throughout the “Shut Up Evan” podcast. “I went as far as to abuse Andy Cohen‘s contact data to pitch him the thought.”
She added that her “Too A lot” actor Scott would painting Sandoval, with Lawrence as Madix. “I wish to take these phrases and direct them prefer it’s actually critical theater,” Dunham mentioned.
IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill in contrast the choice by “Vanderpump Guidelines” editors to let the story unfold onscreen in reverse chronological order to being “harking back to Christopher Nolan‘s ‘Memento’ or the Harold Pinter play ‘Betrayal’ (a piece that has various thematic parallels to this season of ‘Vanderpump’).”
Lawrence, who famously loves the “Actual Housewives” franchise and is a frequent “WWHL” visitor alongside host Cohen, is about to steer Apple Unique Movie and A24’s “The Wives,” a few group of elite housewives who could or is probably not murderers.
“The Wives” will likely be produced by Jeremy O. Harris (“Zola,” “Slave Play”) and Josh Godfrey underneath their bb2 banner, with Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi additionally producing for his or her banner Glorious Cadaver.
Lawrence has been a mega-fan of the “Housewives” Bravo tentpole franchise for years, and even instructed E! that she would give her Oscar to the solid of “The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis” for making the “finest actuality TV finale, I feel, ever.”
Apart from “Scandoval,” that’s.
Dunham, in the meantime, is in manufacturing on “Good Intercourse” and can write a film about FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for A24 and Apple, which additionally over see “The Wives.”