HBO has given the greenlight to the limited series The Gorilla and the Bird, based on Zack McDermott’s book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother’s Love.
Vallée and Nathan Ross will executive produce for crazyrose; Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan will executive produce for Free Association; while Robin Schwartz, Turtletaub and Saraf will executive produce for Big Beach.
Deadline reports that Jean-Marc Vallée (Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects) will direct and executive produce.
Vallée’s crazyrose, Channing Tatum’s Free Association and Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf’s Big Beach have all worked on the project’s development at various stages.