Gillian Flynn has effortlessly made the leap from novelist to screenwriter over the past five years. She turned heads as a writer with the New York Times Best Seller “Gone Girl.” In 2014, she impressively pulled double duty, adapting her novel for the screen for David Fincher to direct and Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, and Neil Patrick Harris to star in. And Flynn did such a fine job with that script, “Gone Girl” earned her a Golden Globe” nomination for Best Screenplay. The rest, as the saying goes, was history. Her latest novel adapted for the visual arts was “Sharp Objects,” the eight-episode HBO limited series, that she is again adapting herself.

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