Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel The Buccaneers is getting a TV adaptation and one TV legend just joined its cast. Christina Hendricks, the star of Good Girls and Mad Men, has been added to the growing cast of this promising project.
The Buccaneers will center on a group of fun-loving young American girls as they explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off a cultural clash after being sent overseas to secure husbands and titles. According to its official logline, the series focuses “on girls with money, men with power, new money and old secrets.”
Hendricks will take the role of Mrs. St. George, the mother of buccaneers Nan and Jinny, played by Kristine Froseth and Imogen Waterhouse. The happiness of her daughters is her main priority, but they’ll soon come to discover that marriage might not be the key to that happiness – for any of them.
In addition to Hendricks, Froseth, and Waterhouse, The Buccaneers is also set to star Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, and Mia Threapleton. The series was written by Katherine Jakeways, and set to be directed by Susanna White (Bleak House, Generation Kill). They’ll executive produce the project alongside The Forge’s Beth Willis and George Faber.
