Mahershala Ali is attached to star in limited series The Plot, based on The Undoing author's new novel

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Variety reports multiple outlets are bidding on a "buzzy limited series adaptation," starring the Oscar-winning actor, of author Jean Hanff Korelitz's 2021 psychological thriller novel The Plot. Korelitz wrote the 2014 novel You Should Have Known, which HBO adapted as The Undoing last year. How to Get Away With Murder writer Abby Ajayi is on board to write The Plot, "about a struggling author and writing instructor who steals a genius plot idea for a novel from one of his students," per Variety. "The book is a smash hit, his career soars but he’s also drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse with a tormentor who knows he lifted the story idea."