Elizabeth Olsen bounces back and forth between film and TV more comfortably than many performers in her general bracket of extreme famousness: Her last four credits include films The Assessment and His Three Daughters, as well as her Max miniseries Love & Death and her recurring Marvel duties on animated streaming series What If…?. Now Olsen is putting another notch in the TV column, signing on for the pilot of a new FX drama about a family that begins to unravel after one of the daughters (Olsen) begins hearing a mysterious voice that no one else can hear.
Titled Seven Sisters, the show comes from executive producer and writer Will Arbery, previously of Succession and Irma Vep. Sean Durkin, meanwhile, will direct the pilot: He and Olsen previously worked together on 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, his debut project as a director, and hers as a film performer. Garret Basch, a mainstay at FX whose previous credits include What We Do In The Shadows and Reservation Dogs, will also executive produce.
From the logline for the series, it’s not clear exactly how supernatural this thing is going to get: “A large, tightknit family begins to unravel when a sister starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear—forcing each of them to confront long-buried secrets.” It’s the kind of thing that could be ghosts, but could also just be an expression of deep-seated trauma. (Arbery seems to like this kind of ambiguity, as a theme: His next big film writing project is Sacrifice, in which Olsen’s fellow former Avenger Chris Evans plays a movie star kidnapped by a cult that thinks killing him will save the world.) We won’t know for sure, of course, until the series makes its way through the pilot stage and actually potentially arrives on FX.
[via Deadline]
