Chandler Kinney (Zombies 2, Lethal Weapon) and Maia Reficco (Evita, Kally’s Mashup) are set as the leads in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, a darker, present-day iteration of the famous 2010-17 series, from Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina maker Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; Lindsay Calhoon Bring (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina); Alloy Entertainment; and Warner Bros TV. Lisa Soper (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) will coordinate the initial two episodes. The series is planned to start production later this late spring at Upriver Studios in New York.
Composed by Aguirre-Sacasa and Calhoon Bring, the reboot dependent on the top rated books by Sara Shepard will feature a new story and new characters. Twenty years prior, a series of tragic events nearly tore the regular town of Millwood separated. Presently, in the current day, a gathering of disparate teen girls — a brand-new set of Little Liars — wind up tortured by an obscure Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their folks committed twenty years prior… just as their own. In the dark, coming-of-age, horror-tinged drama Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, they get ourselves miles from Rosewood, yet inside the current Pretty Little Liars universe — in a brand-new town, with another age of Little Liars.
Kinney will play Tabby, a hopeful chief and thriller buff. Like the other Little Liars, Tabby’s hiding a secret.
Reficco will portray Noa, an striving, sardonic track star who’s striving to get her life back to ordinary after a late spring spent in juvenile detention.
Aguirre-Sacasa will executive produce through his Muckle Man Productions, with Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo, just as Michael Grassi and Caroline Baron. Calhoon Bring will co-leader produce. Muckle Man Productions and Alloy produce in relationship with WBTV.
Kinney most as of late starred in Zombies 2, the second portion of the Disney Channel film establishment, and she will return for the third portion. Kinney recently featured in the Fox series Lethal Weapon. Extra credits incorporate FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum, The Haunted Hathaways for Nickelodeon, and Disney’s Girl Meets World. Kinney is repped by Paradigm, Untitled Entertainment and Gang, Tire, Ramer, Brown and Passman.
Reficco is right now shooting the Netflix include Strangers, inverse Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke, and coordinated by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. She most as of late featured in the Broadway Center Stage creation Next to Normal as Natalie at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Beforehand, she featured as Young Eva in the Encores! Creation of Evita at New York City Center, coordinated by Sammi Cannold. Reficco is most popular for her part as Kally in the Nickelodeon series Kally’s Mashup in Latin America, for which she procured a few Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Reficco is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson.
Soper as of late directed an episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for Netflix, Warner Bros Television, and Berlanti Productions. Soper is likewise an award-winning production designer who most as of late worked with James Gunn on the Max Original Peacemaker; she was additionally the creator on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina prior to changing into coordinating on the show. Soper is repped by Charlotte Rose at Green Light Artist Management and Hannah Ozer at Kaplan/Perrone.
Aguirre-Sacasa developed and serves in as executive producer/showrunner of Riverdale for The CW. He also executive produced and developed Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The CW’s Katy Keene. Each of the three dramatizations depend on characters from Archie Comics, where Aguirre-Sacasa serves as chief creative officer, and produced by Warner Bros Television, where he is under a overall deal.