According to Deadline, HBO Max has officially given a script to series order to MGM and UA Television’s series adaptation of author Ellen Raskin’s award-winning mystery novel titled The Westing Game.
The Westing Game series is being described as a Knives Out meets Agatha Christie mystery comedy that will be executive produced by Julie Corman, who also owns the rights to the novel.
First published in 1978, The Westing Game novel follows the story of a group of unlikely people living in the same apartment building gets a once in a lifetime chance to become rich when their millionaire landlord names them in his will as his heirs.
The official synopsis reads: “A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will.