Sadie Sink Takes Charge: Will Star and Executive Produce The Marriage Plot With a Succession Writer at the Helm
From slaying monsters to navigating messy hearts, Sadie Sink storms into a bold new lead that promises higher stakes, sharper twists, and screen-stealing heat.
Sadie Sink is not slowing down. She just signed on to star in — and executive produce — an FX limited series of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel 'The Marriage Plot.' It is a flex move: lead role, EP credit, and a creative team that screams premium drama.
The project
FX announced that 'The Marriage Plot' is officially in the works for FX, with streaming on Hulu. The story centers on three fresh college grads whose idealistic version of love gets steamrolled by actual adulthood. What starts as a heady post-campus romance turns into a full-on triangle, pushing each of them to rethink who they are and what they actually want. In other words: young love meets real consequences.
Who is making it
- Star/EP: Sadie Sink
- Writer/EP: Will Arbery (yes, the one who wrote on 'Succession')
- Director/EP: Hiro Murai
- Additional EPs: Steven Prinz, Rachel Jacobs, Michael Costigan, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Eugenides, Carver Karaszewski, Claudia Shin
- Producer: Yiyi Huang
- Studios: A24 and FX Productions
- Platform: FX with streaming on Hulu
"The Marriage Plot is a perfect fit for FX: ambitious, character-driven storytelling that offers another great opportunity to partner with exceptional artists," FX Entertainment President Gina Balian said in announcing the series.
Why this fits Sink right now
Sink has been steadily widening the lane beyond 'Stranger Things ' — an acclaimed 'Romeo and Juliet' run on stage, an upcoming turn in 'Spider- Man: Brand New Day ' — and now she is stacking producing credits, too. 'The Marriage Plot' gives her a meaty lead and a seat at the table behind the camera, alongside heavy hitters like Murai, Arbery, and A24. That is a serious lineup for a book that lives and dies on messy, emotionally literate characters.
Meanwhile, another EP gig: 'John Proctor Is the Villain' at Universal
This is not her only producing play. Sink is also on board as an executive producer for Universal's film adaptation of Kimberly Belflower's 'John Proctor Is the Villain.' She originated the role of Shelby Holcomb on stage and later picked up a Tony nomination for it, and the plan has her returning for the movie as both star and EP. Belflower is adapting her own script, with Tina Fey and Marc Platt producing.
The story follows a group of Georgia high schoolers studying Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' when a scandal in their own halls forces them to interrogate power, feminism, and who gets to be called a hero. It is sharp, current, and very much in the vein of the ambitious, female-driven projects Sink has been gravitating toward.