In other words, don’t hold your breath for a “Big Little Lies” book series just yet.

I changed some of the backstories of the characters from the book to suit the series…it would feel clunky. “I wrote it to follow on from the series, so I wrote it with an American accent,” she quipped. Kelley.Īs for the novella that inspired the second HBO season, Moriarty isn’t planning on publishing that material because, she says, the stories were written expressly for the show, so the content wouldn’t make sense as a novel. The show, which is expected to premiere in 2020, will serve as a “Big Little Lies” reunion, of sorts, with Kidman starring and executive producing alongside Bruna Papandrea and David E. Nicole Kidman nabbed the television rights to her novel “Nine Perfect Strangers,” which landed a straight-to-series order at Hulu. While the high school kids spinoff appears far off (at best), Moriarty is plenty busy, in the meantime.

“That would be for me, for a book,” she explained, “Which maybe wouldn’t even have the same characters. A TV spinoff is might not see the light of day for a while, however, because Moriarty says her idea would be, at least initially, for a novel.

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