Lena Dunham is again in enterprise with HBO, teaming up with Ruth Wilson for a brand new collection Mob Queens.
The present is an adaptation of the Stitcher podcast of the identical identify, with Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island) additionally coming aboard, in keeping with Selection.
Wilson will star within the collection and function govt producer, whereas Dunham and Lehane will co-write and govt produce, with Dunham additionally directing.
The collection will comply with the lifetime of Anna Genovese (Wilson), the second spouse of notorious Mafia chief Vito Genovese of the Genovese crime household.
She was additionally well-known as a fixture within the Village's drag bar scene within the Nineteen Thirties, operating a variety of well-known golf equipment.
Anna reached a brand new stage of infamy when she left her husband in 1950, finally breaking the foundations of the Sicilian mafia, a.okay.a. Cosa Nostra, by revealing her husband's unlawful prison dealings within the divorce proceedings.
She handed away in 1982 after struggling a critical stroke, surrounded by her lover, Jackie, daughter Marie, and granddaughter, Mia.
The Mob Queens podcasts debuted in 2019, hosted by writers Jessica Bendiger and Michael Seligman.
The writers had researched Anna for 4 years, after Seligman found a cache of letters written by Genovese whereas cleansing out the storage unit of an older pal who had handed away.
Michael P. Cohen of Good Factor Going may even govt produce with Dunham, Wilson and Lehane.
Additionally govt producing are Ryan Selzer of Woman Lazarus, Stitcher, Animal Kingdom, and podcast hosts Michael Seligman and Jessica Bendinger.
Wilson at present stars on HBO's His Darkish Supplies, which is in manufacturing on its third and remaining season.
Dunham is finest identified for creating the hit HBO collection Ladies, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017.
She additionally created HBO's Tenting and, most not too long ago she wrote an episode of Genera+ion, which debuted on HBO Max in June.
Lehane is a novelist and screenwriter finest identified for his books Mystic River, Gone Child Gone and Shutter Island, whereas additionally writing on The Outsider and Mr. Mercedes.
