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Max Developing Soapy Erotic Thriller ‘Your Second Wife’ From Jamie Rosengard, Adele Lim, Sugar23 & Jessica Rothe


Max has taken in for development Your Second Wife, a soapy, erotic thriller series based on Laura Van Den Berg's short story of the same name.

Jamie Rosengard/Adele LimMarie Nguyen/Dennis Kwan Created by Rosengard, who also serves as showrunner and executive producer, Your Second Wife follows Liana Dunn, an aspiring actress turned high school theater teacher trapped in stasis on Long Island. She most recently developed the limited series Take Me Apart, adapted from the novel by Sara Sligar, for Amazon, Merman, and Scrap Paper Pictures, as well as projects for Netflix and Freeform. Lim co-wrote the 2018 screenplay for Crazy Rich Asians, which grossed $239 million worldwide, and won the Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy, along with numerous other nominations,.

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