Yellowstone Star Kelly Reilly's 19-Year-Old Supernatural Movie Getting TV Remake

Kelly Reilly’s horror movie Puffball is getting the TV treatment.

Reilly is in the headlines recently, having reprised her popular role as Beth Dutton for the spinoff Dutton Ranch. Reilly appears alongside frequent scene partner Cole Hauser to reunite the fan-favorite couple of Beth and Rip Wheeler. But now one of Reilly’s earlier roles is getting adapted for television.

Deadline reports that the 2007 horror movie Puffball is getting adapted into a television series. The news comes nearly 20 years after the limited release of the Nicolas Roeg film, which featured Reilly as an unsuspecting architect who gets caught in a supernatural danger zone.

Based on the novel of the same name by Fey Weldon, Puffball follows the young architect (played by Reilly) who becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated, eerie Irish valley to build a house. It’s not long before dangerous forces are unleashed, with neighbouring farmers plotting against the unborn child and leaving the architect to fight for her survival.

With a cast that also includes Miranda Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Donald Sutherland, William Houston, and Oscar Pearce, Puffball received a limited release in February 2008 after premiering at a festival a year earlier. It is currently not available to stream online, though it has been released on DVD.

Morgan Lloyd Malcom, an Olivier Award-winning playwright for Emilia, is attached to write the script. Morgan is also known for the Netflix thriller series Obsession, which starred Richard Armitage, as well as the psychological film The Wasp. As it stands, the television version of Puffball doesn’t have a network attached and hasn’t announced any casting. It is still early before the project makes its way to audiences.

The novel centers on Liffey and Richard, two Londoners who move to the countryside in hopes of starting a family. Their neighbors, Mabs and Tucker, have a very different life and already have five children. This jealously is ultimately what pushes Mabs to convince Tucker to sleep with Liffey. But this revenge plan takes a turn of its own, as Liffey becomes pregnant.

If the Puffball series ever does make it past the developmental process, which is never a guarantee, the episodic medium of television may prove to be a better fit to explore one of Reilly’s early roles and the different motivations that helped to fuel the plot of her underseen horror movie.