Sadie Sink leads adaptation of Eugenides's Marriage Plot

Actor Sadie Sink will star in and executive produce a new television adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s acclaimed 2011 novel, “The Marriage Plot.” The limited series has been officially ordered by FX, with A24 producing and Hulu set as its streaming home.

The series will follow three recent college graduates entangled in a consuming love triangle as they navigate the transition from youthful idealism to the complexities of adulthood, making pivotal choices about love and identity. The story is set in the early 1980s and centers on Madeleine Hanna, an English major at Brown University, who is caught between two men: Leonard Bankhead, a biology student living with bipolar disorder, and Mitchell Grammaticus, a religious studies major.

The project brings together a notable creative team. Will Arbery, a writer for HBO’s “Succession” and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” is adapting the novel and will serve as an executive producer. Hiro Murai, known for his distinctive visual style on series like “Atlanta” and “The Bear,” will direct and also executive produce. This marks Arbery’s second series order at FX in less than a year, following the pickup...