Anya Taylor-Joy to Lead Adaptation of 'How to Kill Your Family'

Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit ) is set to lead Netflix's upcoming eight-part thriller How to Kill Your Family, a buzzy murderous romp with a complicated antiheroine at its center.

The series is based on Bella Mackie's 2021 Sunday Times bestseller of the same name which has thus far sold over 1.2 million copies. Taylor-Joy will star as Grace Bernard, the illegitimate daughter of a billionaire who claims not to remember the affair that produced her. But in the wake of her mother's death --- a death her absentee father certainly could have eased, if not outright prevented --- she decides to seek revenge on the father who abandoned her.

Determined to claim her rightful inheritance--- and maybe a bit of justice, too --- Grace begins taking out her estranged family members one by one. Her revenge scheme involves some darkly creative twists as she slowly murders her way through her father's relatives, leaving Simon himself for last.