Alicia Silverstone, Mark Feuerstein Be part of Netflix’s The Child-Sitters Membership
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Kristy Thomas has a really well-known mother. E! Information has discovered Clueless star Alicia Silverstone has joined the forged of Netflix’s The Child-Sitters Membership as Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer. Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein will play her love curiosity, Watson Brewer.
The live-action adaptation of the beloved e-book sequence follows the friendship and babysitting adventures of Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill and Daybreak Schafer.
The sequence, which is about in Stoneybrook, Connecticut, is now in manufacturing in Vancouver, Canada.
GLOW veteran Rachel Shukery is govt producer and showrunner. Michael De Luca, Lucy Kitada and Naia Cucukov will even govt produce. Broad Metropolis’s Lucia Aniello is directing and in addition an govt producer. Sequence writer Ann M. Martin is on board as a producer on the 10-episode first season.
“I am amazed that there are such a lot of passionate followers of The Child-Sitters Membership in spite of everything these years, and I am honored to proceed to listen to from readers—now grown, who’ve develop into writers, editors, lecturers, librarians, filmmakers—who say that they see a mirrored image of themselves within the characters of Kristy and her associates. So I am very excited concerning the forthcoming sequence on Netflix, which I hope will encourage a brand new technology of readers and leaders all over the place,” Martin stated in an announcement when the sequence was introduced.
The Child-Sitters Membership initially debuted as a four-book sequence in 1986 and have become one of the crucial profitable youngsters’s e-book sequence with over 200 books licensed in additional than 20 territories.
This is not the primary TV sequence primarily based on the e-book sequence. In 1990, a 13-episode sequence debuted on HBO and Nickelodeon. A film primarily based on the novels adopted in 1995 starring Schuyler Fisk, Rachel Leigh Cook dinner and Larisa Oleynik.
No premiere date for Netflix’s model has been introduced.
“The themes of The Child-Sitters Membership nonetheless resonate 30 years after the unique e-book sequence was launched and there has by no means been a extra opportune time to inform an aspirational story about empowering younger feminine entrepreneurs,” Melissa Cobb, vp of Youngsters & Household at Netflix, stated in an announcement. “Along with Ann M. Martin and the group at Walden Media, our ambition is to contemporize the storylines and adventures of this iconic group of girlfriends to replicate modern-day points.”
The Child-Sitters Membership has greater than 180 million copies in print up to now.