The Nanny Diaries to return as Netflix series with Scarlett Johansson

Netflix is developing a series adaptation of The Nanny Diaries, with Scarlett Johansson set to executive produce. The show will explore the life of a young nanny navigating the elite world of Manhattan’s wealthy families

Los Angeles: Streaming service Netflix is adapting “The Nanny Diaries” into a television series, with Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson attached as executive producer.

The actor, who starred in the 2007 film adaptation of the same book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, will executive produce the upcoming series under her These Pictures banner alongside Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn, according to entertainment news outlet Variety.

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The series will have Amy Chozick and Jenny Bicks as writers and co-showrunners.

The story revolves around a college student, Annie Braddock, from a working-class background, who takes up a nanny job with Mr and Mrs X, an affluent but highly dysfunctional Manhattan couple.

“Annie, a broke aspiring writer in search of a story, takes up a nanny job for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable excess. When she lands the book deal of her dreams to go undercover and expose the salacious lives of the ultra-rich, Annie must try to keep up this double life even as she grows attached to the people and this world, and finds out what her elusive boss is actually capable of,” reads the official logline of the upcoming series.

The film adaptation was directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. It featured Johansson in the role of Braddock alongside Laura Linney and Chris Evans.

The first book was released in 2002, followed by a sequel in 2009, titled “Nanny Returns”.