Overview
- Variety reported Monday that Kepnes will write and make her directorial debut on an eight-episode short-form adaptation of her 2022 short story The Attentionist.
- The first season follows a 14-year-old named Maeve and her sister in 1990s Cape Cod as a secret phone romance turns dark without revealing plot twists.
- The production has named producers Mark Roberts and Lorena David and key creatives including casting director Joseph Middleton and cinematographer Michael Lloyd, and casting is underway.
- The series is set to shoot on location in Kepnes’s native Cape Cod and is planned to launch on YouTube as part of a premium slate that the platform is expected to announce in the coming days.
- Kepnes’s move from novelist to writer-director links the project to her You novels and reflects a growing trend of authors seeking creative control while platforms expand short-form premium content.