Here Are the Three Best Ideas Hollywood Came Up with This Week

By Dustin Rowles | TV | October 27, 2023 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | October 27, 2023 |

I know that headline probably sounds like I’m decrying the bankruptcy of Hollywood because they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel with some hideous reboot/remake/reborquel ideas, but legitimately, here are three projects we can genuinely be excited about.

The first one is a “twisted romance” called Wicker starring Olivia Colman and Dev Patel. I probably don’t need to go any further, but I will. Here’s the logline. Sit back and take it in:

“On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman); smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker (Dev Patel). In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.”

I’ve already paid for my ticket in my head. It will come from directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson based on a script they adapted from the Ursula Wills-Jones short story The Wicker Husband.

Up next is Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on a book by Rufi Thorpe that doesn’t even come out until next June. I’ve already put it on my wish list because the logline lights up various parts of my brain:

Margo’s Got Money Troubles revolves around Margo Millet, the daughter of a Hooters waitress and former pro wrestler who, after having an affair with her junior college English professor, gets pregnant and turns to OnlyFans to make ends meet. After reuniting with her estranged father, who imparts advice he learned in the wrestling ring, Margo becomes a runaway success on OnlyFans.

That one is a TV adaptation from David E. Kelley and producers Nicole Kidman and Elle and Dakota Fanning’s production companies. Elle Fanning would be perfect for Margo, right?

Finally, Christopher Storer is the creator of FX’s The Bear. After a massive bidding war, FX and Storer got the rights to adapt Sarah Harman’s upcoming book All the Other Mothers Hate Me. The book won’t even be out until 2025, but it’s about an American woman who suspects her son may have killed a wealthy student at his West London private school.

I love it. Storer, by the way, is also adapting Don Winslow’s The Winter of Frankie Machine into a film. Do you know what is not mentioned in his upcoming projects? Season three of The Bear, which still hasn’t been officially renewed.