Season 3 of 'Big Little Lies' receives green light in HBO

It's official! The – very requested and highly anticipated – Third season of the acclaimed series Big Little Lies It starts in HBO, with the hiring of Francesca Sloane (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) as a screenwriter of the first episode.

Sloane will also be executive producer of the third season, together with the creator of the series, David E. Kelleyand the protagonists Reese Witherspoon y Nicole Kidman.

According to Deadline reports, the HBO agreement with Sloane is an exclusivity contract of two years.

Sloane joins HBO from Amazon MGM Studios, where under a general contract since 2020, he developed as a cooker, executive producer and showrunner of the Prime Video series, Mr. & Mrs. Smithseries that by the way, has indefinitely postponed a second season. Previously worked at Atlanta y Fargo de fx, y The First de Hulu.

The agreement with Sloane culminates an extensive search that HBO began this summer to find a screenwriter for the third season of Big Little Lies. The result was a competition between half a dozen scriptwriters and consolidated screenwriters.

Deadline explains that Sloane was not part of that process, as his return as a showrunner of the second season of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. However, after his agreement with Amazon MGM Studios was in Limbo, and the second season of Mr. & Mrs. Smith He was suspended indefinitely due to, according to sources, problems with the cast, Sloane chose to explore the market, which led him to HBO and his commitment to Big Little Lies.

Sloane's hiring are great news for the development of the expected third season of Big Little Liesa season that is not only anticipated by the audience, but by the cast itself.

In the Golden Globes 2024, Witherspoon said to be “Working on it. Nic and I have worked hard on it”. While a few months earlier, Kidman confirmed a third season, while declining felt delighted because “Big Little Lies appeared at a time of my life where I had my children and I thought I was going to retire. And then this situation arose in which Witherspoon reese and I could produce that series and create that series. We will bring you a third [temporada]only for your information “.

Casey Bloys, president and executive director of HBO and HBO Max Content, expects the sequel to Liane Moriarty's book. It is believed that Moriarty's continuation of his novel Big Little Liespublished in 2014, which was based on the first season of the HBO series, it is finished and will be published in 2026. Moriarty has revealed that It presents a temporary leap, with the women protagonists of the story now mothers of adolescents.

The plot of BLL Follow a group of women in Monterey, California, played by Witherspoon, Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, y Zoë Kravitzwho are trapped in an investigation by homicide.

The first season debuted in HBO in 2017, becoming a huge success of audience, criticism and industry equally, winning 8 16 nominations Emmy awards, including better limited series, an address prize for Jean-Marc Vallée and acting trophies for Kidman, Skarsgård and DERN.

After this, the concept of “limited series” was left behind, giving green light to a second season, which premiered in February 2019, whose history was based on original material, with Kelley as a screenwriter and executive producer of both seasons, and the incursion of Meryl Streep In the second, playing Kidman's mother -in -law.

The cast also includes Alexander Skarsgård, Adam Scott, James Tupper, Jeffrey Nordling, Kathryn Newton, Iain Armitage, Darby Camp, Chloe Coleman, Ivy George, and the twins Cameron Crovetti and Nicholas Crovetti.