Drew Barrymore, who starred in Firestarter as a kid and made a memorable impression in Scream as an adult, is headed back to the horror genre with “Black Rose Anthology,” a new anthology series that has just been picked up by The CW.
Deadline reports that the one-hour series will be unique in that the writing and directing team will be made up entirely of female talent. It hails from Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen’s Flower Films, former co-showrunner of MTV’s “Scream” Jill Blotevogel, and CBS TV Studios.
Blotevogel will write the pilot script for “Black Rose Anthology,” which will explore some of humanity’s deepest fears from a woman’s unique perspective. Classic themes of terror will be tackled via vignettes about guilt, jealousy, repression, paranoia, insanity, sexual obsession and survival through a modern and distinctly feminine lens.
Blotevogel will executive produce alongside Jamie Denenberg & Kevin Abrams of Alpine Labs; Flower Films principals Barrymore and Juvonen, president Chris Miller and co-president Ember Truesdell; and MasiMedia’s Anthony Masi, Nick Phillips and Lotti Pharriss Knowles.