The Shining Girls TV Series

On 23 July 2020, Apple TV+ gave a series order to Shining Girls, a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel The Shining Girls, starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. MRC Television is the studio. Writer-creator Silka Luisa (Strange Angel) will pen the adaptation, executive produce and serve as showrunner.

The Shining Girls book centers on a Depression-era drifter who must murder the “shining girls” in order to continue his travels. Moss will star as a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.

Moss will executive produce via her Love & Squalor Pictures, alongside Lindsey McManus. DiCaprio will executive produce through Appian Way alongside Jennifer Davisson. Beukes and Alan Page Arriaga will also serve as executive producers on the project.

Production Companies

 * MRC Television
 * Apple TV+
 * Love & Squalor Pictures
 * Appian Way

Producers

 * Silka Luisa - Executive Producer and Showrunner
 * Elisabeth Moss - Executive Producer (Love & Squalor Pictures)
 * Lindsey McManus - Executive Producer (Love and Squalor Pictures)
 * Leonardo Dicaprio - Executive Producer (Appian Way)
 * Jennifer Davisson - Executive Producer (Appian Way)
 * Michelle MacLaren - Executive Producer (MacLaren Entertainment)
 * Rebecca Hobbs - Executive Producer
 * Daina Neil - Executive Producer

Directors

 * Michelle MacLaren (Episodes 1 and 2)
 * Elisabeth Moss (Episodes 3 and 4)
 * Daina Reid (Episodes 5-8)

Writers

 * Lauren Beukes - Author, Writer
 * Silka Luisa - Screen Writer