Paramount+ has announced that they will officially premiere the first two episodes of their “deep-dive reimagining” of Adrian Lyne’s iconic and highly successful 1987 psychosexual thriller “Fatal Attraction” on April 30th.
The eight-episode series adapts the Michael Douglas and Glenn Close-led feature about a husband’s extra-marital affair and stars Joshua Jackson (in the Douglas role), Lizzy Caplan (in the Close role), Amanda Peet (in the Anne Archer role), Alyssa Jirrels, Toby Huss, Reno Wilson and Brian Goodman.
The show will explore “fatal attraction and the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes toward strong women, personality disorders and coercive control”.
The original followed a married man whose casual affair turns dangerous when his lover begins to stalk him and his family. It became known for the famed ‘bunny boiling’ scene where the scorned woman kills the family’s pet rabbit, a revised ending involving a shootout rather than a suicide, and for at least temporarily getting a generation of married men to keep it in their pants.
As per usual with Paramount+, the series adaptation will premiere the following day internationally. After the double-episode debut, the remaining six episodes will be available to stream weekly on Sundays in the U.S. and Canada, and on Mondays in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France.
Alexandra Cunningham (“Dirty John”) serves as writer, showrunner and executive producer alongside executive producer Kevin J. Hynes (“Perry Mason”). Silver Tree, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey also executive produce.
