The Night Of guys are getting back together to bum us out on Netflix

This is per Deadline, which reports that while details about the series are pretty scanty, it’s apparently using Jill Leovy’s 2015 non-fiction book Ghettoside—a New York Times-bestselling true crime look at a Los Angeles murder—as it source material. (Leovy’s book puts a lot more focus on the cops investigating the crime than Zaillian and Price did with The Night Of, which gave a pretty jaundiced eye overall to the mechanisms of justice.) Zaillian and Price have teamed up to write the scripts for the series, their first collaboration since working together extensively on The Night Of.

Price has stayed in the HBO ecosystem over the last few years, working on first The Deuce and then the network’s Stephen King adaptation The Outsider. Zaillian has been over at Netflix, meanwhile, having created and showrun the streamer’s 2024 Patricia Highsmith adaptation Ripley—at least, once it had moved over to Netflix from its original home at Showtime. (The move paid off, winning Netflix four Emmys, including one for Zaillian himself for Outstanding Directing.) Before that, the veteran screenwriter also lent his pen to one of the company’s big prestige projects, writing the screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. The new series, meanwhile, is being described as a six-episode project, with most of the scripts already written, something that reportedly helped convince Netflix to give it the green light.