The Queen’s Gambit’s star will also exec produce the adaptation.

Netflix has announced an adaptation of Bella Mackie’s novel How To Kill Your Family, set to star The Queen’s Gambit’s Anya Taylor-Joy.

Killing Eve indie Sid Gentle Films will make the 8 x 60’ drama, that centres on Grace Bernard (Taylor-Joy), a young woman who has waged a campaign of hatred against her father, ruthless billionaire Simon Artemis. He claims not to remember the affair of which she was the result, leaving Grace and her mother to fend for themselves.

When Grace’s mother dies, she channels her anger into something purposeful: killing off her estranged, extended family using morbidly creative means…

Emma Moran has adapted the novel for television and also exec produces alongside Taylor-Joy, Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris and Lizzie Rusbridger.

Taylor-Joy said: “As soon as I turned the last page, I knew I had to be a part of bringing this story to life. After some (light) stalking of the inimitable Bella Mackie I am looking forward to getting our hands even dirtier.” 

Woodward Gentle added: “I couldn’t be more thrilled by our team. Emma Moran is a magical talent with a unique voice and the excitement is already palpable in the writers’ room as Anya, Lizzie and the team explore Bella’s rip-roaring, takes no prisoners, satirically pitch-black novel.

“This series can promise more twists and darker crimes as we go deeper into Grace and the characters around her. Anya is a fantastic collaborator and couldn’t be a more perfect actor to inhabit Grace – sophisticated, multi-layered, dangerously funny and desperately intuitive.”

Netflix also announced a raft of other commissions at the Edinburgh International TV Festival today (21 August), including docs on Gordon Ramsay, Take That and Victoria Beckham, a renewal of spy thriller Black Doves and a new drama, Legends, from Neil Forsyth and Tannadice Pictures.

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