Amanda Seyfried to Star in TV Adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s Skinny Dip’
This is just the latest attempt to bring the book to screens, and is currently in development at Amazon with Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis showrunning.
Amanda Seyfried as Nina Winchester in 'The Housemaid'. Photo: Daniel McFadden/Lionsgate.
Preview:
- Amanda Seyfried is attached to star in ‘Skinny Dip.’
- It’ll adapt the Carl Hiaasen novel.
- Bill Lawrence, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis are aboard to produce.
When a project has been tried by at least two companies beforehand, you start to wonder whether it’ll ever see the light of day. Yet ‘Skinny Dip,’ adapted from Carl Hiaasen’s novel, is still swimming away in development.
And there is some positive forward movement on this one, as Amanda Seyfried is now attached to star.
The nascent series currently has a home at Amazon, with ‘Once Upon a Time’ duo Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis aboard to write and executive producer, while Bill Lawrence –– no stranger to Hiaasen’s work following his successful adaptation of the writer’s ‘Bad Monkey’ for Apple –– producing via his Doozer production company.
More on the series’ difficult development journey is lower down the page…
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What’s the story of ‘Skinny Dip’?
(L to R): Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried in 'Jennifer's Body'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Assuming it makes it to screens this time, Seyfried would play Joey Perrone, whose second anniversary didn’t go quite as planned.
She expected earrings, but instead, her marine scientist husband Chaz had alternate plans. After unexpectedly finding herself on the other side of those plans (he pushes her off a cruise liner!), she vows to get revenge.
Teaming up with a disgraced ex-cop, Joey sets out to make Chaz pay.
What has happened with ‘Skinny Dip’ so far?
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Ready for a story? Let’s go…
In 2011, HBO was developing an adaptation with Michael Keaton as an exec producer. The CW made a pilot for it in 2018, with ‘Parks and Recreation’s Sarah Wright Olsen as Joey, but it was not picked up to series.
A year later, Quibi took a crack, also to no avail. Then, earlier this year, HBO/Max was developing the series with Horowitz, Kitsis and Lawrence attached, but ultimately passed.
While you might guess Apple would be next up to try its hand (given the Hiaasen/Lawrence/‘Bad Monkey’ history, it has actually landed at Amazon.
Where else can we see Amanda Seyfried?
Seyfried starred in crime thriller miniseries ‘Long Bright River’ for Peacock this year and is garnering awards buzz for ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’.
She’ll next be seen in ‘The Housemaid,’ which co-stars Sydney Sweeney and will launch in theaters on December 19.
Amanda Seyfried in 'The Testament of Ann Lee'. Photo courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.
Movies and TV Shows Featuring Amanda Seyfried:
- 'Mean Girls' (2004)
- 'Nine Lives' (2005)
- 'Alpha Dog' (2006)
- 'Big Love' (2006-2011)
- 'Mamma Mia!' (2008)
- 'Jennifer's Body' (2009)
- 'Dear John' (2010)
- 'In Time' (2011)
- 'Les Miserables' (20212)
- 'Lovelace' (2013)
- 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' (2014)
- 'Ted 2' (2015)
- 'Pan' (2015)
- 'First Reformed' (2017)
- 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' (2018)
- 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' (2019)
- 'Mank' (2020)
- 'Scoob!' (2021)
- 'A Mouthful of Air' (2021)
- 'The Testament of Ann Lee' (2025)
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