Right here’s a giant little replace on Massive Little Lies: Creator David E. Kelley is “hopeful” that we’ll get a Season 3 of the HBO drama.
Kelley informed Folks on the latest Gotham TV Awards in New York Metropolis that everybody “may be very dedicated” to the thought of a 3rd season of Massive Little Lies.
“We’re hoping it occurs,” he mentioned. “We had a good time doing the primary two seasons, and all of us need to do it once more. I’m hopeful it’ll occur.”
Not one of the stars of Massive Little Lies — a solid that features Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern, and Shailene Woodley — is beneath contract but, Kelley defined. He mentioned the trick is to “corral quite a lot of high-caliber expertise and their publicists.”
And that high-caliber expertise additionally contains Liane Moriarty, creator of the 2014 novel Massive Little Lies, who has written a e-book upon which Season 3 can be primarily based, Kelley revealed.
“We haven’t actually all gotten collectively to brainstorm but, however once more, it’s an awesome secure of expertise,” he mentioned. “As soon as we do [get together], I feel we now have a superb shot of figuring it out.”
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Massive Little Lies’ first season debuted in 2017 and adopted 5 girls linked to a murder in Monterey, California, with Kelley scripting and Jean-Marc Vallée directing every episode.
The second season, primarily based on a novella by Moriarty, handled the fallout of that crime, with Meryl Streep taking part in the mom of the deceased. That season premiered in 2019, with Kelley penning every teleplay and Andrea Arnold helming every episode.
Francesca Orsi, the manager vice chairman who oversees HBO’s drama collection and movies, informed Selection this February she “couldn’t wait to get began” on Massive Little Lies Season 3.
“However we’d like the rest of the e-book,” Orsi mentioned. “We’ve got 150 pages in, and [Moriarty] is doubling down, seeking to end it. There’s quite a lot of eagerness from each HBO and the manufacturing crew, and as quickly because it’s executed, she’ll hand it over and we’ll adapt it. However till then, we simply have to take a seat tight.”
And this spring, Kravitz informed Elle that “everybody” needs to do a 3rd season. “We’re like, ‘Name us and inform us when and the place.’ That might be wonderful if that would occur this yr — I’d be over the moon.”