I Love You, Now Die director to help turn the Michelle Carter case into a scripted TV series

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Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 for encouraging her boyfriend Conrad Roy via text messages to kill himself when she was 17 and he was 18, was recently the subject of the HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die. Now she'll get the scripted drama series treatment. Universal Cable Productions is developing The Girl From Plainville, based on Jesse Barron's 2017 Esquire article of the same name, considered to be the definitive account of the Carter case. Erin Lee Carr, who directed I Love You, Now Die, and Barron will serve as consulting producers on The Girl From Plainville. “Partnering with Jesse and Erin on adapting this true crime into a drama series allows us to dive deeper into the events surrounding one of the most controversial trials in recent history,” says UCP president Dawn Olmstead. “They have already done an incredible job in illuminating this compelling and complicated story.”