Two of the writers of KPop Demon Hunters have landed their next project at FX.
Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan are developing a drama with the intriguing title of A Really Bad Person at the Disney-owned outlet. It’s the first series project that the pair have created together.
FX Productions and Legendary Television are behind A Really Bad Person. The show’s logline describes it as “a drama about a very relatable American girl who does the most unrelatable thing while visiting London — she pretends to be the missing daughter of a British family. It’s a last-ditch effort to gain citizenship, a fresh start, and escape her complicated past.”
Jimenez and McMechan will also executive produce the pilot along with Sharon Hall, David Finkel and Brett Baer.
Jimenez and McMechan wrote KPop Demon Hunters with co-directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. Since that Netflix film’s breakout success, which includes two Oscars (best animated film and best original song) and a viewing record for the streamer, they have penned the horror comedy Youth Juice signed on to write the screenplay for Tim Burton’s Attack of the 50-Foot Woman remake.
A Really Bad Person joins a slate of FX development projects that also includes Hopeless, a comedy from Jeff Chan and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator/star Rob Mac, and a drama about National Park rescue volunteers based on a New Yorker story. FX has also recently placed series orders for (among others) The Marriage Plot, based on the Jeffrey Eugenides novel and starring Sadie Sink; drama Seven Sisters with Elizabeth Olsen; Far Cry, based on the video game and created by FX veterans Noah Hawley and Rob Mac; and Very Young Frankenstein, a comedy based on the classic Mel Brooks movie.
