Krysten Ritter to play a serial killer in new dark comedy series

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Krysten Ritter's time playing Marvel Comics character Jessica Jones for Netflix may have come to an end, but her new project is already drawing a lot of attention. She has signed on to star in a dark comedy series based on author/stand-up comedian Charley Warady's upcoming novel SERIAL KILLERS ANONYMOUS, and this project, which is set up at Universal Television, is now at the center of a bidding war between Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, FX, and HBO Max.

It doesn't look like this show will be using the SERIAL KILLERS ANONYMOUS title; right now it's only being referred to as the Untitled Krysten Ritter Project.

The show re-teams Ritter with Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23 creator Nahnatchaka Khan, who went on to create Fresh Off the Boat after Don't Trust the B- ended. Khan is writing this untitled new show with Angela LaManna, whose credits include Netflix / Marvel's The Punisher, Channel Zero, and The Haunting of Bly Manor.

Ritter will be playing 

a female serial killer.

And that's all that was revealed. 

Waraby's SERIAL KILLERS ANONYMOUS is said to use "dark humor to convey that serial killers can be people, too. In the end, though… something's gotta give." The book has the following description: 

There's a 12 Step Program for everything: alcohol, narcotics, cocaine, overeating, gambling, even video games. But this 12 Step Program, in a cabin hidden deep in the woods in Kentucky with between a dozen and twenty attendees is particularly unusual. A relapse from a member of Serial Killers Anonymous usually means someone other than the addict dies. The serial killer is an addict, chasing the thrill and satisfaction of the kill. When that leaves, he spends the rest of his kills trying to retrieve that feeling. Serial Killers Anonymous operates under the premise that a spiritual program is the only answer and it’s been working for this group for over 30 years. But just one slip up by one of the members could lead the police and the FBI to their cabin, condemning all the members to death row. 

Orson is one of the members of Serial Killers Anonymous. He hasn't tortured or killed a young woman in over a year and he owes it all to the program and his sponsor, Denver, who has over thirty years in the program. With only a year working the program, Orson falls in love with a woman he meets in Alcoholics Anonymous, which he also attends. Denver fears that a romantic relationship will be the thing that ruins everyone's anonymity, through pillow talk or trust. Things begin to go wrong. The cabin is spotted but not identified by "a stranger." Denver is sure it's because Orson didn't take his advice. Orson wonders if Denver's right. 

This may not be a show we'll cover much in the future, depending on how much the comedy overshadows the serial killer aspect, but it has our attention for the moment.