
I’m beyond excited and honored to bring this unique, inspiring, badass character to life. That’s the message of our series: no matter what life throws at you – ultimately only you have the power to decide what you believe and what you become. But she refuses to let that, or her bizarre, brutal past define her or limit her. “She’s complex, brave, funny…and sometimes dangerous.


“This a young female protagonist we’ve never seen on screen before,” said Tucker. Jason Blum, Marci Wiseman and Jeremy Gold executive produce for Blumhouse TV. Tucker serves as showrunner and executive produces with Winant who will direct the first two episodes. Ricky Van Veen, Facebook’s Director of Development, just announced the project at NATPE.īased on the classic Grimm Brothers tale The Handless Maiden, and Stephanie Oakes’ novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, and adapted and updated by Tucker, Sacred Lies (working ttitle) is about a handless teen who escapes from a cult and finds herself in juvenile detention, suspected of knowing who killed her cult leader.

Facebook Orders Drama Series ‘Sacred Lies’ From Blumhouse & ‘True Blood’ Duoįormer True Blood executive producer Raelle Tucker and director Scott Winant have teamed with Blumhouse Television for Sacred Lies (working title) a half-hour drama, which has been given a 10-episode series order by Facebook Watch.
