Sasha Pieterse (Pretty Little Liars) is launching a production company, Mother Bare Productions, and its first project will be a movie adaptation of novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon's upcoming urban fantasy book series Infernal Affairs, Deadline reported. Pieterse will star in and produce the movie. Cory Todd Hughes and Adrian Speckert are adapting the urban fantasy story.
Kenyon has sold more than 70 million books, including her novel series Dark Hunter, Chronicles of Nick, Deadman's Cross, and The League. The first installment of her new Infernal Affairs series is Hell to Pay, which will be released later this month, with Hell's Half Acre due in June, and a third title coming later.
Infernal Affairs "follows the 'dangerously seductive' Lucian 'Luke' Teivel, Lucifer's son, who is banished to Earth to work for a secret task force that polices supernatural crime. He fights the threats alongside his guarded new partner, Detective Sorcha O'Malley, in Savannah, Georgia, and along the way 'they uncover a conspiracy that could ignite a war between Heaven and Hell, while a forbidden attraction grows between them,' " Deadline wrote.
"When I first read Hell to Pay, what stopped me wasn't the mythology or the world-building, though both are extraordinary," Pieterse said. "It was Sorcha. Here is a woman who has been quietly exiled to the margins of her own career, reassigned to a unit that the rest of law enforcement treats like a punchline, carrying a past she refuses to explain and a talent she's still learning to trust. And yet she walks into Infernal Affairs on her first day and doesn't flinch. Not at the colleagues, not at the cases, and certainly not at a six-foot-something prince of Hell who becomes her partner. She holds her ground with wit and composure while her entire understanding of the world is being rewritten around her."