Rashida Jones, a Hollywood actress, has been set to feature in and executive produce Apple TV+’s upcoming dark comedy Sunny. There will be ten episodes in the series.
Sunny is based on the novel “Dark Manual” by award-winning Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan, who lives in Japan. According to Deadline, Sunny has been seeking a green light for a long. Jones plays Suzie, an American lady living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is turned upside down when her husband and kid mysteriously vanish in an aircraft disaster.
Sunny, is among a new class of domestic robots produced by her husband’s electronics firm, is handed to her as “comfort.” Suzie first resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, but as they work together just to unearth the terrible reality of what truly happened to Suzie’s family, they get dangerously entangled in a world Suzie never knew existed.
Sunny is written by Katie Robbins, who has worked on The Affair and The Last Tycoon, and will be directed by Lucy Tcherniak, who has directed Station Eleven, The End of the F***ing World, and Peacock’s upcoming limited series Angelyne. For A24, Robbins executive produces with Jones and Tcherniak, as well as Ravi Nandan and Jess Lubben.
Following Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks, this is Apple, A24, as well as Jones’ second collaboration. Jones is working on her third project with Apple TV+; she will next be shown in Wool, a world-building drama series based on Hugh Howey’s best-selling trilogy of dystopian books. Robbins served on The Last Tycoon and became a writer-producer on Seasons 4 and 5 of Showtime’s The Affair. Most recent, she worked as a consultant producer on Party of Five.
Sunny is set to shoot in Japan.
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