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Starring five-time Academy Award\u00ae-nominee Amy Adams, the critically acclaimed, tense psychological thriller\u00a0Sharp Objects\u00a0starts on M-Net channel 101 on DStv from Monday, 01 October at 22:05.<\/p>\n
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Based on the bestselling novel of the same name from\u00a0Gone Girl\u00a0author Gillian Flynn,\u00a0the\u00a0 eight-episode\u00a0limited\u00a0series\u00a0was\u00a0created\u00a0by\u00a0Emmy\u00ae nominee\u00a0Marti\u00a0Noxon\u00a0 (UnREAL & Mad\u00a0 Men)\u00a0and\u00a0directed\u00a0by\u00a0Emmy\u00ae winner\u00a0Jean-Marc\u00a0Vall\u00e9e\u00a0(HBO\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0Big\u00a0 Little\u00a0 Lies\u00a0&\u00a0Dallas\u00a0 Buyers Club)\u00a0with\u00a0scripts by Marti Noxon and Gillian Flynn.<\/p>\n
Adams stars as reporter Camille Preaker, who returns to her small hometown to cover the murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. While trying to put together a psychological puzzle from her past, she finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too closely. The series was filmed in Los Angeles and Northern California, and in and around Atlanta.<\/p>\n
\u201cSharp Objects\u00a0is my first child, my first novel,\u201d said author Gillian Flynn.\u00a0\u201cI wrote it nights and weekends and holidays with no real belief it would ever be published, because I felt like I had to bring this girl to life, so it holds a sacred place with me. It\u2019s a strange and thrilling thing, bringing text\u00a0to\u00a0screen,\u00a0allowing\u00a0it\u00a0to\u00a0become\u00a0a\u00a0new\u00a0thing\u00a0while honouring readers\u2019 interpretations too \u2014 it\u2019s fun and a bit scary.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was my first novel,\u00a0 yet\u00a0 the\u00a0 last\u00a0 to\u00a0 reach\u00a0 screen \u2014 12\u00a0 long\u00a0 and\u00a0 often disappointing years,\u201d Flynn continued. \u201cBut then Amy came along, and I thought, \u2018Oh, that was it! Camille was waiting for Amy to play her.\u2019 And that\u2019s not lofty, writer talk. I really believe Camille needed Amy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Director Jean-Marc Vall\u00e9e said, \u201cIt\u2019s curious how we can find beauty in places we wouldn\u2019t expect. How darkness sometimes can become attractive, comforting. This is what happened to me when I read Gillian\u2019s novel. I got sucked into Camille\u2019s head. I was falling for this character. Never met, never seen, nor heard anyone like this before. I was fascinated by her obsession with words, the way she uses them to define herself, to heal and to harm, and her way of describing the world, her way of talking about herself, her wounds and imperfections.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a unique voice, so raw, so dark, and yet so honest and vulnerable,\u201d\u00a0Vall\u00e9e added. \u201cThat is Camille Preaker\u2019s beauty, and Amy Adams. I feel grateful and fortunate to have witnessed the spectacular work of an actress who dared to play in the dark, with no safety net.\u201d<\/p>\n
Creator and\u00a0 showrunner\u00a0Marti Noxon said: \u201cWhen\u00a0I\u00a0first\u00a0read\u00a0this\u00a0book,\u00a0I\u00a0remember thinking to myself, \u2018I have to meet Gillian Flynn \u2013\u00a0 she\u2019s really screwed up like I am.\u2019 This is a story that speaks to a part of women\u2019s lives that we rarely address: our impulse to hurt ourselves and each other. And I feel like Camille is representative of so many women who have continually suppressed the damage that has been done to them throughout their lives, and how in an effort to avoid dealing with the root of our issues we inflict pain onto ourselves, in various forms. It\u2019s something I could personally relate to, and to see this character who is deeply flawed, but still incredibly brave in her search for the truth, was part of why this story stayed with me for so long after reading it \u2013\u00a0and\u00a0it\u00a0was\u00a0that\u00a0lingering\u00a0hold\u00a0that\u00a0made me want to adapt it into a series.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cast also includes: Patricia Clarkson\u00a0 (the\u00a0\u00a0Maze Runner\u00a0series,\u00a0Six\u00a0Feet\u00a0Under),\u00a0 Chris\u00a0 Messina\u00a0 (The\u00a0Mindy\u00a0Project,\u00a0The\u00a0Newsrooom),\u00a0 Eliza\u00a0 Scanlen\u00a0 (Home and Away), Elizabeth\u00a0 Perkins\u00a0 (This\u00a0Is\u00a0Us, HBO\u2019s\u00a0Curb\u00a0Your\u00a0Enthusiasm)\u00a0 and\u00a0 Matt\u00a0 Craven (X-Men, Justified), along with Henry Czerny (Quantico, When We Rise), Miguel Sandoval (Station 19, Medium), Taylor John Smith (Cruel Intentions, American\u00a0Crime),\u00a0 Sophia\u00a0 Lillis\u00a0 (It)\u00a0 and\u00a0 Madison\u00a0 Davenport\u00a0 (From\u00a0 Dusk\u00a0 Till\u00a0 Dawn: The Series).<\/p>\n
Is Darkness really attractive and comforting?\u00a0 Find out this Monday 1 October at 22:05 only on M-Net channel 101.<\/p>\n
Follow the conversation on Twitter @MNet (#MNet101 #SharpObjects) or on the official\u00a0M-Net Facebook\u00a0page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starring five-time Academy Award\u00ae-nominee Amy Adams, the critically acclaimed, tense psychological thriller\u00a0Sharp Objects\u00a0starts on M-Net channel 101 on DStv from Monday, 01 October at 22:05. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name from\u00a0Gone Girl\u00a0author Gillian Flynn,\u00a0the\u00a0 eight-episode\u00a0limited\u00a0series\u00a0was\u00a0created\u00a0by\u00a0Emmy\u00ae nominee\u00a0Marti\u00a0Noxon\u00a0 (UnREAL & Mad\u00a0 Men)\u00a0and\u00a0directed\u00a0by\u00a0Emmy\u00ae winner\u00a0Jean-Marc\u00a0Vall\u00e9e\u00a0(HBO\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0Big\u00a0 Little\u00a0 Lies\u00a0&\u00a0Dallas\u00a0 Buyers Club)\u00a0with\u00a0scripts by Marti Noxon and Gillian Flynn.… Continue reading HBO’s Acclaimed ‘Sharp Objects’ Coming To M-Net 101<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-mnet","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}