The latest Gillian Flynn book adaptation, Sharp Objects, has Gone Girl [1] fans all sorts of excited. After seeing how well HBO handled Big Little Lies [2], we can't wait to see how Jean-Marc Vallée (who is directing both projects) brings Flynn's debut novel to the small screen. Now that a second season of Big Little Lies is officially happening [3], we can't help but wonder if Sharp Objects will continue past its first season as well. According to Flynn, that very well may be a possibility.
Sharp Objects tells the story of a crime journalist named Camille Preaker (played in the forthcoming show by Amy Adams [4]), who returns to her hometown of Wind Gap, MI, to investigate the mysterious murder of a young girl. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the author said she can already imagine the story continuing [5] for Camille and her other characters past what has already been written.
"My characters always go on in my imagination," she said. "They have full working lives in there, and I keep in touch with all of them . . . I know exactly what happens to them."
During a Q&A at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, TX, Amy Adams [6] remarked on how the decision to opt for an eight-episode miniseries [7] rather than a two-hour film (as was originally intended) was the right move. "If you go back and read Sharp Objects, the internal monologue of Camille is almost impossible to capture in a 90-minute story, so it's so well suited to this," said Amy. "I think [the limited series] is the near future of storytelling." It seems to us that if a plan to continue the series was discussed, Amy would be on board.
We think HBO would be open to the possibility as well. While speaking at a panel at the INTV conference in Israel, HBO's vice president of drama, David Levine, revealed that Amy's performance as Camille is "spectacular," [8] which certainly bodes well for the show's future.
It seems to us that all involved can echo Gillian Flynn's thoughts on the matter [9]: "I would never say no [to another season]." Nothing has been confirmed as of now, but we can only hope that Sharp Objects will get more screen time than its eight-episode run.
In the meantime, get ready for the July 8 premiere of Sharp Objects on HBO!