Amazon has begun development of “The Horror of Dolores Roach,” Blumhouse Television’s drama series adaptation of the Gimlet podcast. A virtual writers room for the project has been set up and Dara Resnik (“Home Before Dark”) has boarded as showrunner.
The series is based on podcast creator Aaron Mark’s one-woman play “Empanada Loca,” which starred Daphne Rubin-Vega (“Katy Keene,” “In The Heights”). Resnik will work alongside Mark, who has signed a first-look deal with Blumhouse, and is adapting the series from his own script with the help of Rubin-Vega.
The macabre Sweeney Todd-inspired tale boasts themes of cannibalism follows the indomitable Dolores Roach, who returns to a New York City neighborhood that has changed drastically during the sixteen years she has been in prison.
Her boyfriend missing and family long gone, Dolores is recognized only by an old stoner friend, Luis, who gives Dolores room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement apartment under his dilapidated empanada shop.
When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, she is driven to extremes to survive – leaving in her wake a string of strangled massage clients. In the face of unexpected professional success, Dolores and Luis become dangerously symbiotic, and Luis must unleash his own particular predilections.
Jason Blum, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Chris Giliberti and Justin McGoldrick will executive produce.
Source: Deadline
