Guillermo Del Toro To Develop New Hitchcockian Drama On HBO!

Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) has decided to move to the small screen for the time being with an adaptation of The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Deaths. The new project to debut on HBO will simply be called The Nutshell Studies, and Del Toro is set to be the director and executive producer. He will be working alongside Sara Gran (writer of TNT’s Southland) who will co-executive produce as well as write for the show.

The book the project is based upon was written by author and photographer Corinne May Botz. It centers around forensic pioneer Frances Glessner Lee, the founder of Harvard’s Department of Legal Medicine in the 1930s who later became a captain in the New Hampshire Police Department. The HBO project itself will be a fictionalized version of the book, revolving around a 1950s housewife who becomes obsessed with solving brutal murders creating diorama reconstructions of the murder scene. The Hithcockian aspect of it will surely make for a creepy show.

Little information has been released as to whether The Nutshell Studies is to be a mini-movie, miniseries, or an ongoing series, but whatever the case may be, I’m sure it will be amazing.

Source: THR