True Blood team developing series based on Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Riley Sager's new novel Lock Every Door was just released yesterday (you can pick up a copy HERE), but a television series based on the story is already in the works at Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.

Brian Buckner, who worked as co-executive producer on the first five seasons of True Blood (that's some True Blood pictured above) and was promoted to executive producer/showrunner on the final two seasons, is writing the Lock Every Door adaptation and will executive produce the show. Angela Robinson, who was made co-executive producer on True Blood as of season 5 and became executive producer on season 7, will be executive producing Lock Every Door alongside Buckner, David Kuhn, Michelle Brower, Sager, and Michael Sugar's Sugar 23. Margaux Swerdloff is overseeing the project for Sugar 23.

Robinson will also be directing the pilot.

Dedicated to ROSEMARY'S BABY author Ira Levin, Sager's novel has the following description: 

No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.

As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story… until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.

Searching for the truth about Ingrid’s disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's sordid past and into the secrets kept within its walls. What she discovers pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building’s hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.

A year and half ago, we heard that Anonymous Content and Sugar 23 were working with Universal on a cinematic adaptation of Sager's novel FINAL GIRLS, but we haven't heard anything more about that one since.