The Heathers TV show has found its two leads

J.D. and Veronica have been found for TV Land’s Heathers show in James Scully and Grace Victoria Cox. In the 1988 cult black comedy film Christian Slater and Winona Ryder played the characters.

The series pilot, which will be directed by Leslye Headland (Sleeping with Other People), will be set in present day and will set up the adaptation as an anthology where the heroine deals with a different group of vicious “Heathers” each season.

Jason Micallef is set to write the pilot from Lakeshore Entertainment’s Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi. Production is expected to begin this autumn.

This marks Scully’s first episodic role on television, while Cox starred in the TV series Under the Dome. This is Cox’s second reboot on her resume as she is set to appear in the new season of Twin Peaks on Showtime.

Grace Victoria Cox

James Scully

Via The Tracking Board