According to The Hollywood Reporter, Emmy winner Sarah Paulson has signed on to star in Warner Bros. Television and Bad Robot Productions’ upcoming series adaptation of Untamed, based on queer activist Glennon Doyle’s bestselling 2020 memoir.
This marks Paulson’s first major solo TV project in over three years since starring in Netflix’s psychological thriller Ratched, which was a prequel to the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Besides Untamed, Paulson will first make her return to the horror genre in Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming horror thriller Dust.
Who’s involved in Untamed?
The Untamed series will be written by former Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff. It will be executive produced by Jessie Nelson, Alexandre Schmitt and Andrew Stearn through their Trip the Light Productions. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions has been developing the project since 2020.
The official synopsis for Doyle’s memoir reads: “Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live.
It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.”
