Since her career launched into the stratosphere with Netflix's 2020 chess thriller phenomenon The Queen's Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy has been consistently booked and busy. In the last year alone, she's fended off Bowser as the voice of Princess Peach in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, popped up as the Lisan al-Gaib's sister Alia Atreides in Dune: Part Two, and gotten her Furiosa on in George Miller's aptly titled action epic Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Now, Taylor-Joy is gearing up for a return to Netflix as murderess Grace Bernard in the streamer's upcoming series adaptation of Bella Mackie's 2021 bestselling serial killer satire How To Kill Your Family.
Extraordinary creator Emma Moran is aboard to write and executive produce the eight-episode series whose plot, in case you've not read or come across the book, very much does exactly what it says on the tin, assuming antiheroine Grace's (Taylor-Joy) POV as she carves out a bloody path of revenge. (Think American Psycho but slightly more relatable and a pinch more feminist.) Here's Netflix's official plot synopsis: "[How To Kill Your Family] follows Grace, who has a complicated family. Her dad is Simon Artemis, a billionaire and ruthless social climber. Grace is the product of an affair Simon claims not to remember, which left Grace and her mom to fend for themselves. When her mother dies and Grace is rejected by the people who should love her, she transforms her anger into something useful — killing off her estranged extended family via morbidly creative means. Soon, Grace is clawing her way toward revenge and a hefty inheritance. But her mission pulls her away from what she really needs."
“As soon as I turned the last page, I knew I had to be a part of bringing this story to life,” said Taylor-Joy — described by author Mackie as "the most perfect fit to play Grace" — in a statement accompanying the series' announcement. “After some (light) stalking of the inimitable Bella Mackie, I could not be more thrilled to be collaborating with the team that is executive producers Sally Woodward Gentle, Lizzie Rusbridger, and Emma. I am looking forward to getting our hands even dirtier.”
We've no word as of yet on when we can expect How To Kill Your Family to hit our screens, or on who the poor unfortunate souls playing said family will be. But with such killer source material (sorry) and a lead to die for (double sorry), you can almost guarantee Taylor-Joy, Moran, and their collaborators' take on Mackie's book will absolutely slay (and there's the hat-trick — sorry again!).