E. Lockhart’s 2014 YA novel We Have been Liars has been a BookTok favourite because the daybreak of BookTok. Over 10 years after its publication, individuals can’t cease speaking about this one. And persons are solely going to be speaking extra, as a result of Lockhart’s novel is about to be a sequence on Amazon Prime. Filming wrapped on the finish of 2024, and Lockhart shared on Instagram that followers ought to anticipate the present to drop on the streaming platform in spring 2025. What’s the present about? Who’s going to be in it? What else ought to we anticipate? Learn on to search out out!
We Have been Liars is, by the creator’s personal description, a “beachy gothic” novel. This psychological horror/thriller follows the story of the ridiculously rich Sinclair household who spend each summer season on a personal island. All their lives, the younger Sinclair cousins have convened on the island, performed collectively, laughed collectively, and, sure, even lied collectively. However on Cadence Sinclair’s fifteenth summer season on the island, one thing unusual occurred. Now, two years later, Cadence has returned for an additional summer season to attempt to bear in mind what occurred.
In July 2022, it was introduced that each We Have been Liars and its prequel, Household of Liars, could be tailored right into a sequence for Amazon Prime Video. The sequence was tailored by Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries), who referred to as the challenge “a career highlight.” Lockhart additionally labored on the scripts for the sequence. We additionally know some episodes might be directed by Erica Dunton and Nzingha Stewart. The primary season of the sequence will include eight episodes.
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However who will play the Liars? That’s what everybody needs to know. Cadence Sinclair, the oldest Sinclair grandchild, might be performed by Emily Alyn Lind, who you would possibly acknowledge from HBO’s Gossip Woman reboot, or Physician Sleep, and/or Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Rounding out the Liars are Joseph Zada (Complete Management) as Johnny Sinclair, Esther McGregor (Babygirl) as Mirren Sinclair, and Shubham Maheshwari as Gat.
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the remainder of the solid, we’ve acquired Mamie Gummer (True Detective), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession), and Candice King (The Vampire Diaries) because the three Sinclair sisters. Gummer will play Carrie Sinclair, the eldest daughter of rich patriarch Harris Sinclair (performed by David Morse). Rahul Kohli (The Fall of the Home of Usher) performs Carrie’s companion Ed. FitzGerald will play Penny Sinclair, the second oldest daughter, and King performs Bess Sinclair, the youngest.
The sequence hasn’t even aired but, however Plec and firm are already gearing up for a second season. “I think fans of the book are going to be very, very happy, because I think we hit all the marks and all the beats that the book does, and then also expand the universe, layers upon layers upon layers to really make the adult characters really nuanced and really multi-layered, and to set the stage for Season 2,” Plec informed Deadline, “which theoretically is going to take us deeper into the moms’ lives as well and add another generation to the story.”
Whereas we now have no launch date but, it feels like we will gear as much as watch this one earlier than summer season hits! Will you be watching We Have been Liars?