Director Patty Jenkins has teamed back up her with Wonder Woman actor Chris Pine for a brand new TNT drama series called I Am The Night, based on the book One Day She’ll Darken, by Fauna Hodel.
We’ve now got our first look at the tense crime drama in the just-released trailer…
If you needed any more proof that television as a medium is really starting to be taken seriously then look no further than the director and supporting star of the biggest movie of last summer doing a TV series together!
I Am the Night got a straight-to-series order from TNT, and so will run for six episodes. Jenkins directed the pilot, and served as an executive producer alongside Pine. The episodes will be written by Sam Sheridan, the author of A Fighter’s Heart and The Disaster Diaries, and Monica Beletsky, writer of Fargo, The Leftovers, and Friday Night Lights.
More as we get it.
I Am The Night air date
I Am The Night is coming in January, 2019.
I Am The Night cast
The show is based on the autobiography of Fauna Hodel, a white woman who was given away by her birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949. Once grown, Hodel goes on the search for her birth parentage, only to discover connections to the infamous Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947.
Which character is Pine playing? That would be Jay Singletary, a former Marine living as a reporter and paparazzo who has his a vested interest in Hodel’s story, but who faces a moral dilemma in his continued search for the truth.
I Am The Night also stars: Connie Nielsen, India Eisley as Fauna Hodel, and Jefferson Mays as Hollywood gynecologist Dr. George Hodel.