Anya Taylor-Joy Shows You How to Murder Your Family in New Netflix Thriller Series
Netflix recently announced that an eight-episode film adaptation will be released How to Kill Your Family on the way to the best streaming service, with The King’s Gambit Lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy plays Grace, the forgotten child of a ruthless billionaire.
If you’re unfamiliar, the series is based on Bella Mackie’s best-selling novel of the same name. It’s a revenge thriller about a complicated family, and the Netflix series marks the first time it’s been adapted into a film since its 2021 release.
Exceptional creator Emma Moran serves as How to Kill Your Family‘s writer and executive producer, with Kill EvaSally Woodward Gentle is also an executive producer on the series.
Speaking about taking the lead role in Tudum from Netflix, Taylor-Joy said: “As soon as I turned the last page I knew I had to bring this story to life.
“After some (light) stalking from the inimitable Bella Mackie, I couldn’t be more excited to be working with the team of executive producers Sally Woodward Gentle, Lizzie Rusbridger and Emma. I look forward to getting our hands even dirtier.”
At this moment, How to Kill Your Family appears to be in early production, so we don’t have any teasers, first-look images, or release dates for the series just yet. But since it has a big name like Taylor-Joy attached to it and is on streaming giant Netflix, you can make me curious.
What is How to Kill Your Family about?
If you’ve made it this far, it seems you’re interested in learning a little more about the plot. With such a bold title, it’s bound to draw you in, and I can tell you right now that it’s going to be a wild ride – but stop here if you don’t want to know the details.
We follow Taylor-Joy’s Grace, who has a complicated family. I mean, don’t we all in one way or another, but Grace’s life is terribly indeed complicated. Let us try to sketch it below.
Grace’s father is Simon Artemis, a billionaire and ruthless social climber. Grace struggles with her identity, as the product of an affair her father claims he can’t remember. After spending so much time alone with her mother, she is devastated when she dies and tries to connect with her father’s side. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t go well.
Rejected by the people who should love her, she ends up on a killing spree, taking revenge with her estranged family and an impressive inheritance.
I’m already hooked and can’t wait to watch it when it hits Netflix. I hope it lives up to its gritty premise and becomes one of the best Netflix shows of the year.
