HBO is getting into business with Amy Adams, signing a first-look deal with the “Sharp Objects” star and her newly-launched production company, Bond Group Entertainment.
Under the just-announced deal, Adams will executive produce an adaptation of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “Poisonwood Bible,” with Kingsolver writing the script alongside Anya Epstein.
The limited series follows Orleanna Price, the wife of an evangelical missionary who takes her and their four daughters to the Belgian Congo in the midst of colonial upheaval in 1959. What follows is a suspenseful epic of tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction in the interlocked fates of one family and a newly independent African nation.