EXCLUSIVE: A well-liked TV couple of the 2010s is making a return: Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley, who performed two of the leads of the hit CW sequence The Vampire Diaries, are reuniting to star in one other ebook adaptation, You Need to Know. The challenge from Alex Cooper‘s Unwell and Aaron Kaplan‘s Kapital Leisure has landed at Hulu for improvement in a aggressive state of affairs.
Written by Grand Resort developer Brian Tanen primarily based on the 2025 novel by Aggie Blum Thompson, You Need to Know follows three suburban {couples} — next-door neighbors and finest buddies. When considered one of their husbands is murdered, a stunning path of secrets and techniques is revealed, and their friendship cracks large open.
Dobrev and Wesley play Gwen and Scott, respectively — two neighbors on reverse sides of a homicide investigation, main them on a collision course.
Along with starring, Dobrev and Wesley government produce alongside Tanen and Thompson in addition to Unwell’s Cooper, Matt Kaplan and Mina Lefevre and Kapital Leisure’s Kaplan. Co-executive producing are Kapital’s Jaiden Kaplan & Dylan Hammalian and Unwell’s Paul Kim and Kendall Boucher. Kapital and twentieth Tv are the studios.
Kaplan is bringing Dobrev and Wesley collectively having beforehand labored with every of them individually. Dobrev starred in Kapital’s multi-camera comedy Fam for CBS, whereas Wesley starred within the firm’s psychological thriller Inform Me a Story for CBS All Entry (now Paramount+).
Brian Tanen and Aggie Blum Thompson
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In the meantime, Kapital developed medical drama Important Indicators with Tanen at ABC and Useless Letters with Unwell at Netflix with Lucy Hale connected to star and bought two different Thompson books to Peacock and Netflix. Tanen is also co-writing with Tinx a sequence adaptation of her ebook The Shift for Kapital and Amazon.
You Need to Know marks a second high-profile sale at Hulu for Kapital prior to now month following What Stays, starring and government produced by Kerry Washington. Kaplan additionally produced the sequence Black Cake for the streamer.
This additionally marks Tanen’s return to Hulu, the place he was government producer and co-showrunner on Love, Victor. Earlier than that, he was government producer/showrunner on ABC’s Grand Resort, which he additionally tailored from a Spanish format, and Lifetime’s Devious Maids, and co-executive producer on Netflix’s Atypical. Tanen is repped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
Dobrev and Wesley starred collectively within the first six seasons of The Vampire Diaries as Elena and Stefan, who began off as a pair earlier than she fell in love with Stefan’s brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder) in considered one of YA TV’s most iconic love triangles of the 2010s. Wesley stayed on for the present’s total eight-season run, with Dobrev returning for the sequence finale.
Paul Wesley and Nina Dobrev in ‘The Vampire Diaries’
Lately, Dobrev starred in and produced the quick movie Basic Admission, which premiered on the Tribeca Movie Pageant. Subsequent, she stars within the motion thriller function The Get Out alongside Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul and Theresa Palmer, and stars in and government produces It Occurred One Summer time, primarily based on the romance novel of the identical identify. As Deadline reported, Dobrev is connected to headline and government produce erotic thriller sequence Night time Float within the works at Fifth Season. She is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Administration + Media and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
Wesley not too long ago wrapped a recurring position reverse Christina Hendricks within the upcoming third season of the Apple TV sequence The Buccaneers. He additionally not too long ago wrapped the fifth and remaining season of Paramount+’s Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds, the place he performs the enduring James T. Kirk. Wesley, who additionally not too long ago starred within the Shutter function Historical past of Evil, is repped by Verve and Nameless Content material.
Thompson, whose books additionally embrace I Don’t Forgive You, Such a Beautiful Household and All of the Soiled Secrets and techniques, is repped by WME and Katie Shea Boutillier of Donald Maass Literary Company.
