Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins is set to reunite with star Chris Pine on the new TNT drama One Day She’ll Darken, which has received a six-episode straight-to-series drama. Pine will star in all six episodes, while Jenkins is on board to direct the potential and potentially further episodes.
One Day She’ll Darken is based on the autobiography of Fauna 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 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.
“Patty Jenkins is a phenomenally talented director who has always delivered powerful characters, from the unforgettable true-life serial killer in Monster to the game-changing superhero warrior in Wonder Woman,” said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT. “One Day She’ll Darken is a mind-boggling true mystery with unpredictable twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat chills. 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 multi-dimensional 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.”
Jenkins is currently in development on Wonder Woman 2, which has just received a 2019 release date, and is rumoured to be bringing Chris Pine back alongside Gal Gadot’s Amazon Princess.
Originally published July 30, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
