TV Casting News: Rosamund Pike to star in TV adaptation of 'The Banker's Wife'

As I previously posted here last July, Rosamund Pike was co-starring in a short form comedy series titled, State of the Union. Now, she's doing another TV series, this time according to Deadline, she's set to star and executive produce The Banker's Wife, a high stakes international thriller drama series based on Christina Alger's book of same name.

Read more info. about The Banker's Wife via Deadline below...

Rosamund Pike To Star In 'The Banker's Wife' TV Series

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) is set to star in and executive produce The Banker’s Wife, a high stakes international thriller drama series based on Cristina Alger’s book. The project, from Federation Entertainment (Marseille) and producer Sherry Marsh (Pose), also has brought on board top TV writer-creator Meredith Stiehm and top TV director Lesli Linka Glatter.

Stiehm will adapt the novel and executive produce, Glatter will direct and executive produce. The two reunite after working together on Showtime’s Homeland where Stiehm was an executive producer and Glatter is currently an executive producer.

Federation Entertainment, based in the U.S. and France, recently optioned The Banker’s Wife, which was released in early July by Putnam, and teamed with Pose and Vikings exec producer Marsh to develop a drama based on the novel.

Federation Entertainment’s boss Pascal Breton and U.S. chief Ashley Stern will exec produce the English-language series alongside Marsh via her Marsh Productions and Entertainment. The pitch for the female protagonist project with an all-female creative team is being taken out to cable and streaming networks.

The Banker’s Wife is set in the world of global finance from Geneva to Paris, London and New York. It is about two women racing for answers when a mysterious plane crash sets them off on parallel pursuits of truth.

Inspired by the Panama Papers, as these women shine a light on hidden offshore accounts meant to be kept in the dark, they will become embedded in the crosshairs of danger within a larger conspiracy of money laundering, powerful politicians and a web of terrorists and criminals, thus transforming their lives forever.

The Banker’s Wife is Alger’s third book following The Darlings and This Was Not The Plan.Read full article here.