"It all came together when we didn't even have vaccinations yet," he says. When it was announced that the series would film in Romania, in the midst of winter and the Covid pandemic, it was Sciarrotta who ended up being boots on the ground. "I knew Paul loved the Andrews books and was perfect for this." It was another executive producer, Jennie Snyder Urman, who brought Sciarrotta onboard, having worked with him on the comedy Jane the Virgin. Rounding out the cast is Kelsey Grammer ( Frasier), Harry Hamlin ( Mad Men), Paul Wesley ( The Vampire Diaries) and Kate Mulgrew ( Orange Is the New Black). In truth, viewers might be surprised to find that they admire Olivia (Jemima Rooper) and even sympathize with her plight of being married to the evil Malcolm Foxworth (Max Irons). "This is really Olivia's story, her journey from being a woman who was ahead of her time, full of hopes and dreams and all the things she thought her life was going to be, to what happens over the course of thirty-five years," says Sciarrotta. Andrews franchise for the past thirty-five years.)Īnd Olivia, that merciless grandmother? Well, she's hardly recognizable. (The series is based on the prequel novel Garden of Shadows by Andrew Neiderman, who has ghostwritten for the V.C. But instead, the team narrowed their focus to Flowers in the Attic: The Origin, a four-episode limited series premiering July 9 on Lifetime. "When we first pitched the project, we were going to do the whole Flowers in the Attic story," says Sciarrotta, who served as an executive producer and writer. "I was all in," he says happily.Īs with any good mystery, there would be lots of surprises ahead. So when the pitch came around four years ago to adapt the story into a limited series, Sciarrotta didn't hesitate.
Andrews tale of children being locked away in an attic, tormented by a grandmother who was more concerned with preserving the family's wealth than the well-being of her daughter's children. Paul Sciarrotta first read Flowers in the Attic when he was in eighth grade.
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