In addition to executive producing the six-episode true-crime drama, the 36-year-old actor will be playing Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter and paparazzo.
- Jul 28, 2017
AceShowbiz - Hot on the heels of the big box-office success of "Wonder Woman", star Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins will be joining forces for a new project. The two will reteam for a new TNT drama series titled "One Day She'll Darken".
The network has handed out a straight-to-series pickup for the drama, which is inspired by Fauna Hodel. The "Star Trek Beyond" actor is set to star in the six-episode drama, playing Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter and paparazzo. Jay was disgraced over his story about Hodel years prior, but now he sees a glimmer of redemption.
Jenkins will serve behind the lens for the pilot and potentially additional episodes. Meanwhile, Jenkins' husband and author Sam Sherida, who wrote "A Fighter’s Heart and The Disaster Diaries", is set to pen the script. The series is being produced by Turner's Studio T, while Jenkins, Michael Sugar ("13 Reasons Why"), Sheridan and Pine serve as executive producers.
"One Day She'll Darken" follows Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949. As Hodel begins to investigate the secrets to her past, she follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery, the spider in the web around the legendary "Black Dahlia" murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947.
" 'One Day She'll Darken' is a mind-boggling true mystery with unpredictable twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat chills," Sarah Aubrey, executive VP original programming at TNT, says in a statement. "Sam Sheridan, an expert storyteller, has delivered scripts that entertain, frighten and tell tales of redemption and a powerful search for identity. Chris Pine has wowed us with so many of his performances, and knowing how multidimensional his character is in 'One Day She'll Darken', we are so lucky to have an actor as talented as he is to lead this cast."
Filming is scheduled to begin this fall. However, official release date remains to be seen. Pine will soon be filming for Netflix's movie "Outlaw King", while Jenkins is currently working on "Wonder Woman 2" which is set for a December 2019 release.
