Cliffhanger is coming to TV and no, it is not an adaptation of Sylvester Stallone’s action thriller. Fox is developing a series adaptation of TJ Middleton’s 2008 novel of the same name from CSI and Chicago Med‘s Melissa Byer and Treena Hancock.
Middleton’s Cligghanger follows Al Greenwood, “a maverick taxi driver, who pootles around the British countryside in Dorset and decides to kill his wife.” However, the series will instead flip the roles where it is Al’s wife Audrey who plans to kill Al in a post-pandemic setting.
Cliffhanger will follow “the exploits of rideshare driver Audrey Greenwood, who emerges from the pandemic with a startling realization: she never wants to see her husband Al’s face again. So, one dark and stormy night, fueled by rage and tequila, she tries to kill him. But when things don’t go exactly as she planned, Audrey finds herself embroiled in a twisty murder mystery which ricochets around her small seaside town.”
The series will be written and executive produced by Byer and Hancock. Cartel Entertainment will also executive produce with Stan Spry, Jeff Holland, Drew Brown and Evan Corday. Meanwhile Tim Binding, who writes under the pseudonym TJ Middleton, will consult on the adaptation.
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