"Paramount+ said Monday that its freshman series Fatal Attraction is set to premiere April 30 with two episodes airing back to back.

Series executive producer Alexandra Cunningham on Monday during the show’s panel at TCA teased how the drama will be similar to the hit 1987 film starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.

“The screenwriter of the film James Dearden said, to him the character of Alex Forrest is not a study in madness, but rather a sad, tragic, lonely woman under pressure from a really hard job. As a frequently sad, not at all tragic, and not as lonely as I wish I was but under pressure from a really hard job, I wanted us to go in a slightly different direction,” said Cunningham.

She continued, “This reimagining of Fatal Attraction shares a lot with the iconic original film, but it also is about entitlement and midlife crisis and how some of the sausage gets made in our broken justice system, as well as Cluster B personality disorders, isolation, of fathers and daughters, and murder. It’s about how some people just can’t take a win. It’s about self-image and what we’ll do to protect it and also what happens when someone doesn’t have one. And if we’ve done our job, which these actors and their colleagues definitely did, they think that your sympathies will shift more than once.”

Written by Cunningham from a story she co-wrote with Kevin J. Hynes, Fatal Attraction explores the themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes towards strong women, personality disorders, and coercive control.

The series stars Joshua Jackson as Dan Gallagher, Lizzy Caplan as Alex, Amanda Peet as Beth Gallagher, Alyssa Jirrels as Ellen Gallagher, Toby Huss as Mike Gerard, Reno Wilson as Detective Earl Booker, and Brian Goodman as Arthur Tomlinson."

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More remakes!! Where in a sad state!

No way you can convince me that the imagination well has ran dry on television and movies to where you need to keep remaking stuff smh

BigRed912 said 🔗 No way you can convince me that the imagination well has ran dry on television and movies to where you need to keep remaking stuff smh

The imagination well hasn't run dry.

In an era where it's all about maximizing profits for investors and C-suite executives, it's much cheaper to keep remaking sh1t that you already own the rights to and is already proven at the box office or people have a nostalgic attachment to than having to spend money to purchase and/or develop new intellectual property and then take a gamble on it.

remake is invalid if they don't show no c00ch

Lizzy Caplan can have all my babies mayne.

Is anybody here watching this?

It fu#ked me up when I was watching and realized Dan was kicking it with Artie - The Strongest Man…in the world.

acegutta22 said 🔗 Is anybody here watching this?

Just blew through the 8 eps. Who do you think ki1led old girl? Or do you think she's still alive?

Edit: I was in the process of watching the last episode when I wrote this lol

on episode 6 i think she is still alive

micseles said 🔗 Just blew through the 8 eps. Who do you think ki1led old girl? Or do you think she's still alive? Edit: I was in the process of watching the last episode when I wrote this lol

Wow didn't see that s*** coming?