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Wonder-ful news for everyone wishing that Chris Pine could DMCAbe on your TV screen on a weekly basis -- pop culture's most self-aware Chris is reteaming with his Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins for a new TV series.

TNT has announced that Pine will executive produce and star in One Day She'll Darken, a six-episode drama series that explores the incredible life of Fauna Hodel. Jenkins will direct the pilot and possibly additional episodes, as well as executive producing.

Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter's Heartand The Disaster Diaries, is set to write and executive produce the six-episode series, inspired by the autobiography of Hodel -- who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949.

As Fauna begins to investigate the secrets to her past, she follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery, the legendary "Black Dahlia" murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947.

Per TNT's release, Pine will play Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter/paparazzowho was disgraced over a story he wrote about Hodel years ago, but now sees a glimmer of redemption. This story may be the opportunity Jay's been waiting for, but inside this riddle lies a moral quandary he never expected: a labyrinth into the evil in men's hearts that will shake the unsteady man to his foundations.

"Patty Jenkins is a phenomenally talented director who has always delivered powerful characters, from the unforgettable true-life serial killer in Monsterto the game-changing superhero warrior in Wonder Woman," said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT, in a statement.

"One Day She'll Darkenis a mind-boggling true mystery with unpredictable twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat chills. Sam Sheridan, an expert storyteller, has delivered scripts that entertain, frighten and tell tales of redemption and a powerful search for identity. Chris Pine has wowed us with so many of his performances, and knowing how multi-dimensional his character is in One Day She'll Darken, we are so lucky to have an actor as talented as he is to lead this cast."

The series is set to begin production this fall. Pine can next be seen in Ava DuVernay's adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, which hits theaters on March 9, 2018.