In its continued effort to raid the archives for films it can rework for the small screen, Paramount TV has turned its eye towards one of the most influential psychosexual thrillers of the 1980s. Fatal Attraction** is taking aim at our tellies.
Adrian Lyne’s 1987 film starred Michael Douglas as Dan Gallagher, a married man who cheats on his wife for a one-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close). But when Gallagher decides that’s all it will be, Forrest becomes obsessed with him, and starts stalking both Dan and his family, including wife Beth (Anne Archer). Things turn violent, and especially unfortunate for the Gallagher family rabbit, which ends up boiling in a pot on the stove.
The film launched a raft of imitators and now Mad Men veterans Maria and André Jacquemetton are on hand to figure out stretching the concept across what US TV refers to as an “event” series made up of hour-long episodes. No plot details have emerged yet, but it’ll likely focus on a similar situation in which a married man finds that his infidelity comes with a dangerous price. The embryonic show has attracted the interested of the Fox network in the US, and the first script is already underway.