‘Grey Gardens’ Helmer Michael Sucsy Sets Audible Adaptation ‘A Murder To Remember’ With Amazon MGM Studios

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing A Murder to Remember, a feature adaptation of Brynn Kelly‘s Audible Original from Grey Gardens helmer Michael Sucsy.

A Murder is described as a razor-sharp romantic thriller that follows a Jane Austen-obsessed American art expert and a broke but charming British lord who awaken after a blackout-drunk night at a crumbling English abbey convinced they witnessed a murder. With no evidence of a crime and no one willing to believe them, the unlikely pair must uncover the truth before the killer silences them for good.

Kelly’s audiobook, described to Deadline as Knives Out meets Jane Austen, released in February 2024. Sucsy developed the project with Jackie Levine at Audible and Moritz Polter at Windlight Pictures before the package was set up at Amazon MGM. He’s directing from his own script and exec producing via his HungryDuck Productions, alongside Audible’s Rachel Ghiazza and Kelly. Audible’s Levine and Marshall Lewy are producing alongside Windlight Pictures’ Polter and Cosima Degler.

Sucsy is best known for originating, co-writing, producing and directing Grey Gardens, an HBO drama starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange that received 17 Emmy nominations and won six, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. The TV movie also picked up a Golden Globe, with Lange winning an Emmy, and Barrymore winning both a Globe and a SAG Award for her performance.

Following Grey Gardens, Sucsy went on to direct Sony’s romantic drama The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, which grossed $196 million worldwide against a $30 million budget, followed by MGM’s Every Day, based on David Levithan’s bestselling novel. He also directed on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and is repped by Paradigm, Anonymous Content, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.