Wonder Woman 2 may be a painfully long way off, but director Patty Jenkins has already lined up a small-screen reunion with the first film's co-lead Chris Pine.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Jenkins has signed on to direct One Day She'll Darken, a six-episode drama series for TNT. It's written by her husband Sam Sheridan and based on the extraordinary true story of Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage mother to a black restroom attendant in 1949. Years later, Fauna sets out to unravel the secrets of her past, an increasingly sinister journey which leads her to Hollywood gynecologist Dr. George Hodel, who was involved in the infamous Black Dahlia murder.
Pine stars as Jay Singletary, a former Marine and current hack reporter whose coverage of Hodel has left him disgraced, and who now sees a chance at redemption. The official synopsis gets a little flowery at this point, so here you go: "But inside this riddle lies a moral quandary he never expected: a labyrinth into the evil in men's hearts that will shake the unsteady Jay to his foundations."
Jenkins and Pine will both be executive producers. This straight-to-series pickup from TNT comes on the heels of Wonder Woman becoming the highest-grossing movie by a female director, and one of the highest-grossing movies of the year so far.
Now, obviously the ideal scenario would be Jenkins and Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot reuniting for a TV series. But Pine—aka The Best of the Hollywood Chrises, don't @ me—is a very acceptable substitute.
