High Maintenance Creator Ben Sinclair Set to Adapt Lauren Oyler’s Novel Fake Accounts to TV

Lauren Oyler’s iconic conspiracy theory novel Fake Accounts is about to get a TV Series adaptation at the hands of High Maintenance creator Ben Sinclair and noted playwright Jen Silverman, famed writer of the Netflix drama series Tales of the City. The duo is currently developing the project, which will be produced by Ozark star Julia Garner through her new production banner, with Anonymous Content’s AC Studios developing the series.

Anonymous Content Chief Creative Officer David Levine shared his two cents about this upcoming TV Series based on perhaps one of the most popular novels dealing with conspiracy theories and theorists right now.

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We inhaled Lauren Oyler’s debut novel and found it chock-full of searing, hilarious, ultimately brilliant observations about the devil’s bargain we’ve all made living our lives online…

She [Oyler] has captured the zeitgeist of our recent past in the pages of this book, deploying her unmatched critical eye and talent for putting words around what we’re all feeling but can’t name. We’re thrilled to bring her incisive book to TV with such an all-star creative team.

“All Star” seems to be an appropriate description for the creative minds handling Oyler’s spectacular book. Ben Sinclair is well known for starring, directing, and creating the HBO comedy High Maintenance which ran for almost a decade (from 2012 to 2020). He also appeared in the 2020 sci-fi/comedy film Save Yourselves!, a hilarious film about a couple who decide to put away their phones for a week and travel to an isolated cabin, only to remain unaware of an alien invasion on Earth.

Jen Silverman wrote for Netflix’s 2019 limited series Tales of the City, and is currently developing the feature film Sybil Exposed for Annapurna. Silverman’s credits also include plays such as Witch and The Roommate. She will be writing and executive producing Fake Accounts along with Sinclair.

Julia “Ruth Langmore” Garner, the famed Ozark actor, will be producing this upcoming project under her banner, Alma Margo.

Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts Takes Readers Through a Riveting Journey Originating from a Shocking Revelation

Published by Catapult in February 2021, Fake Accounts follows a young woman who, on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he is a rather popular internet conspiracy theorist. Acquainted with internet fakery, irony, and outrage, the anonymous protagonist is not exactly shocked by the revelation but is rather relieved. Her boyfriend was always a little unknowable, and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a self-congratulatory sojourn to the Women’s March in DC. However, uncovering his double life is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world where truths are shaped by online lies.

Looks like a lot is about to unfold on screen with the Fake Accounts TV series. But fans will have to hold their breath a little longer as no official release date has been revealed yet.

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