Overview
- The streamer declined to order the TV adaptation to series after commissioning the pilot earlier this year.
- The reimagining centered on Hayley, a teenage girl at a detention camp, reframing Louis Sachar’s story for a female lead.
- Shay Rudolph led the cast, with Greg Kinnear as the warden and Aidy Bryant as a camp counselor named Sissy.
- Alina Mankin wrote the pilot, Liz Phang served as showrunner, and Jac Schaeffer was attached to direct, with 20th Television as the studio.
- Executive producers included Phang, Mankin, Drew Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles, film producer Mike Medavoy, Walden Media, and rights holder Shamrock.