Sarah Paulson is readied to star as well as exec create the scripted adjustment of HBO Max docuseries The Means Down: God, Greed, as well as the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.
Target date damaged the information in April that the banner was adjusting its docudrama regarding the cult-like number, that passed away in 2014, as a scripted collection.
Paulson will certainly play Shamblin, that climbed to popularity with her Bear down Workshop, a Christian-based diet plan program, as well as started the Residue Fellowship Church. She was a charming number with a meticulously curated photo that was implicated of psychological, mental as well as physical misuse as well as exploitation for the church’s supposed cult-like techniques.
Michelle Dean, that lately acted as showrunner as well as officer manufacturer of Hulu’s The Act, starring Patricia Arquette as well as Joey King, will certainly work as showrunner as well as officer manufacturer of the scripted collection, which originates from Ross Dinerstein’s Campfire Studios as well as Chrissy Teigen’s Huntley Productions
The task, which is still in advancement, will certainly be officer created by Paulson, Dean, Dinerstein, Teigen, Marina Zenovich, that routed the docuseries, Nile Cappello, P.G. Morgan, as well as Luke Dillon. Rebecca Evans as well as Ross Girard work as co-executive manufacturers.
The Means Down released in September with 3 episodes, coming to be the banner’s most-watched docuseries sometimes of launch.
Prior to ending up the collection, Shamblin as well as her hubby passed away in an aircraft accident, as well as the group rotated as well as created 2 even more episodes, speaking with even more individuals regarding the debatable Residue Fellowship Church as well as its owner.
The Means Down takes a look at the heritage of Residue’s notorious leader, as well as the 2nd component analyzes the mystical situations bordering the source of the accident as well as examination right into the after-effects, consisting of brand-new tales from previous survivors that really felt urged to share their experience adhering to Shamblin’s fatality.
Paulson is coming off her Emmy-nominated efficiency as Linda Tripp in FX’s Impeachment: American Scary Tale She is repped by CAA.
