{"id":615933,"date":"2026-06-01T21:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:49:23","slug":"scarlett-johansson-producing-the-fine-art-of-lying-in-works-at-ucp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615933\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson Producing &#8216;The Fine Art of Lying&#8217; In Works At UCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Fresh off its selection as Reese\u2019s Book Club pick for May 2026, Alexandra Andrews\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-fine-art-of-lying\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-fine-art-of-lying\" data-tag=\"the-fine-art-of-lying\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Fine Art of Lying<\/a> has been acquired for series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/development\/\" id=\"auto-tag_development\" data-tag=\"development\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">development<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ucp\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ucp\" data-tag=\"ucp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCP<\/a>, a division of Universal Studio Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAndrews is executive producing the thriller drama project along with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/scarlett-johansson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scarlett-johansson\" data-tag=\"scarlett-johansson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scarlett Johansson<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/these-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_these-pictures\" data-tag=\"these-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">These Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn The Fine Art of Lying, Clare Bast traded small-town Binghamton for Manhattan\u2019s art world but three years after pausing her PhD for motherhood, she\u2019s desperate to reclaim her identity. When a powerful socialite opens doors to curators and collectors, Clare feels alive again \u2014 until her quest for a lost masterpiece drags her into a murder investigation. Every clue points to her. Now Clare must fight to clear her name and protect her family before the glittering world she craved destroys everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAndrews\u2019 debut novel Who Is Maud Dixon?, published in 2021 by Little Brown, landed her a recognition as Breakout Novelist by The Wall Street Journal that year. The book, published in 28 languages, made several Top Books of the Year lists, including by the New York Times, NPR and Time. Andrews is repped by CAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThese Pictures, founded in 2017 by Johansson and producing partners Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn, produced the Apple TV+ romance-comedy-drama film Fly Me to the Moon, starring Johansson and Channing Tatum. More recently, the company produced Eleanor The Great, which marked Johansson\u2019s directorial debut. In TV, as Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/scarlett-johansson-nanny-diaries-series-netflix-producing-1236865462\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported exclusively<\/a>, These Pictures is executive producing a series adaptation of The Nanny Diaries in the works at Netflix, based on the bestselling novel and the 2007 film in which Johansson starred. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off its selection as Reese\u2019s Book Club pick for May 2026, Alexandra Andrews\u2019 The Fine Art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,8063,96,209594,16232,209595,209596,139863,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-development","tag-entertainment","tag-reeses-book-club","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-the-fine-art-of-lying","tag-these-pictures","tag-ucp","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}