Summary

• Anya Taylor-Joy returns to Netflix for a revenge series after The Queen's Gambit success.
• Taylor-Joy will star in How to Kill Your Family as Grace, a woman seeking revenge on her ruthless relatives.
• Grace plots to eliminate her estranged family creatively for revenge and inheritance.

Anya Taylor-Joy is reuniting with Netflix after her breakout success in The Queen's Gambit with a new role in a revenge mystery series. Although she's been a familiar face to audiences for years, with a memorable performance in the Robert Eggers film The Witch, she reached a new level of visibility with her lead role in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit which earned an Emmy nomination. Now, after Taylor-Joy's continued success in movies, with roles in Dune and The Menu, she is returning to television.

Taylor-Joy is now reteaming with Netflix for the revenge thriller, How to Kill Your Family. The eight-episode show is based on the best-selling novel of the same name from author Bella Mackie, who will produce the adaptation that's focused on a woman who plots to kill and inherit a fortune.

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There's Strong Talent Behind The Scenes

The series features Taylor-Joy in the role of Grace. Though the character is motivated to kill her family due to the promise of a sizable inheritance, there's more at stake. The official synopsis, included below, points to the fact that Grace has a complicated family history and suggests that achieving her murderous goal won't be as easy as she thinks:

“Grace has a complicated family. Her dad is Simon Artemis; a billionaire and ruthless social climber. She’s the product of an affair he claims not to and Grace and her mum were left to fend for themselves. When her mother dies and she’s rejected by the very people who should love her, Grace transforms her anger into something useful: killing off this estranged extended family via morbidly creative means. Grace is clawing her way towards revenge and a hefty inheritance, but her mission only pulls her further away from what it is she really needs.”

How to Kill Your Family is similarly accomplished behind the scenes, as it will be written and executive produced by Extraordinary's Emma Moran. With a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and similar acclaim from audiences, Extraordinary is an adult superhero comedy that manages to wade into difficult territory while still managing to be entertaining. It promises a successful recipe for Taylor-Joy's new TV project.

Taylor-Joy serves as executive producer on the project, via her LadyKiller Productions Inc. banner, alongside Sally Woodward Gentle, Lizzie Rusbridger, and Lee Morris. It's only one of Taylor-Joy's projects, which also includes the action sci-fi film The Gorge directed by The Black Phone's Scott Derrickson. But with How to Kill Your Family, the acclaimed actor is poised for another standout role as she gets to spend more time with a character.

Source: Variety