Based on Rufi Thorpe’s upcoming novel, the eight-episode series is produced by A24 and landed at the streamer after a bidding war for the package as well as rights to the title.
David E. Kelley Productions’ Matthew Tinker; Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward; and Blossom Films’ Kidman and Per Saari will exec produce alongside author Thorpe for A24.
Margo joins an already prolific A24 slate that also includes HBO’s Euphoria, Netflix’s Emmy-winning Beef and upcoming series The Sympathizer, starring Robert Downey Jr. for HBO, and The Curse, fronted by Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, at Showtime.
On the film side, A24 was behind this year’s Oscar winner, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Kidman and Kelley have teamed on TV series as Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, Max’s Love and Death, HBO’s Big Little Lies and The Undoing.
Lewellen Pictures’ credits include producing Hulu’s The Great, which starred Elle Fanning, as well as The Girl From Plainville.
Margo becomes the latest star-studded series to join Apple’s slate of originals that also includes Shrinking, For All Mankind, Loot, Masters of the Air, The Morning Show, Mythic Quest, Pachinko, Severance and Slow Horses, among several others.
