Lola Petticrew and Scoot McNairy have joined Hulu‘s untitled Liz Meriwether project, loosely inspired by the 1987 movie Black Widow. They join the previously announced star Emmy Rossum, who will play an FBI Agent who uses the secrets from a female serial killer’s past to try and find her.
The 1987 movie Black Widow, written by Bass and directed by Bob Rafelson, follows two women: Catherine (Theresa Russell), who murders wealthy men whom she has married for their money, and Alexandra (Debra Winger), an agent with the Department of Justice who grows obsessed with bringing her to justice.
Meriwether executive produces alongside Rossum and Sara Moskowitz via Rossum’s Composition 8 banner, as well as Ron Bass, who wrote the 20th Century Fox-distributed 1987 film. 20th Television, where Meriwether has been based for a decade, and Searchlight TV are producing.
Petticrew is an Irish actor named one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow in 2021. Petticrew’s performance as IRA member Dolours Price in the FX limited series Say Nothing earned them both a BAFTA TV Award nomination and the IFTA Award for Best Actress. Petticrew is currently in production opposite Anthony Boyle on I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, the latest project from Clio Barnard. They have also wrapped production on their leading role in Channel 4’s drama adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s novel Trespasses, starring opposite Gillian Anderson and Tom Cullen. They are repped by Hamilton Hodell, Range Media Partners and CAA.
Emmy Award nominee McNairy just completed filming the upcoming Netflix series Man on Fire opposite Yahya Obdul-Mateen II and directed by Steven Caple, Jr. His film East of Wall won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival this year. His credits also include back-to-back Academy Award-winning films, Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, and 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen. Other recent projects include James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, the film Nightbitch, playing the role of “Husband” opposite Amy Adams, and in the Blumhouse thriller Speak No Evil. McNairy is repped by UTA and The Group Management.
