Geeta Vasant Patel, Liz Tigelaar, & Extra Group Up For “Underneath the Bridge” Hulu Restricted Sequence

An upcoming Hulu restricted collection will revisit the tragic homicide of Reena Virk, a teenager who was crushed and drowned by bullies in a small Canadian city. In response to Deadline, the streamer has greenlit a TV adaptation of Rebecca Godfrey’s novelistic account of the 1997 homicide case, “Underneath the Bridge.” Geeta Vasant Patel (“Home of the Dragon”) will direct the eight-episode collection of the identical title.

The ABC Signature challenge might be based mostly on true occasions that unfolded in November 1997, when the physique of 14-year-old Virk was found floating within the waters close to Craigflower Bridge in Saanich, British Columbia. Seven teenage women and a boy have been accused of her homicide. 

“Underneath the Bridge” might be tailored for TV by Quinn Shephard (“Blame”). Liz Tigelaar (“Little Fires In every single place”) and Samir Mehta (“Inform Me Lies”) are serving as showrunners of the restricted collection and are amongst its exec producers, as is Godfrey. 

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Awards for Greatest Nonfiction and the British Columbia Award for Canadian Nonfiction, Godfrey’s 2005 novel is the end result of six years of analysis, together with interviews with the accused, and recounts the nationwide tragedy that ignited an ethical panic over violence towards women. 

“Godfrey takes us into the bedrooms and lecture rooms of a robust hip-hop-obsessed clique and the loner-victim who simply wished to belong, then into the police stations and courtrooms the place adults – grieving, devastated – should reckon with the surprising crime,” the ebook’s official synopsis teases.

Patel’s directorial credit embrace “Meet the Patels,” for which she and her brother and co-director Ravi Vasant Patel have been nominated for an Emmy.