A TV adaptation of “The Nanny Diaries” is in development at Netflix, Variety has confirmed.
The series would be based on the book of the same name by by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Amy Chozick (“House of Cards,” “The Girls on the Bus”) and Jenny Bicks (“Sex and the City,” “The Greatest Showman”) serve as writers, executive producers, and co-showrunners.
Scarlett Johannson, who starred in the film adaptation of the book in 2007, will executive produce under her These Pictures banner alongside Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman executive produce via Berlanti Productions. Gary Barber and Sean Hoagland executive produce for Spyglass Media Group. Warner Bros. Television, where Berlanti is under an overall deal, is the studio.
The official logline for the project states:
“Annie, a broke, aspiring writer in search of a story, takes a nanny job for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable excess. When she lands the book deal of her dreams to go undercover and expose the salacious lives of the ultra-rich, Annie must try to keep up this double life even as she grows attached to the people and this world… and finds out what her elusive boss is actually capable of.”
“The Nanny Diaries” was originally published in 2002, while a sequel novel titled “Nanny Returns” was published in 2010. The film version starred Johansson as Annie along with Laura Dern, Paul Giamatti, Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, and Nicholas Reese Art.
Deadline first reported the development news.
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