Sarah Polley and Margaret Atwood

Mary Harron: By The Canadian Press Tues., June 21, 2016 A miniseries based on Margaret Atwood novel Alias Grace will screen on CBC and Netflix, according to Toronto Star. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley is writing and producing the six-hour project, which will begin shooting in Ontario in August. The dust jacket from an early edition. Mary Harron will direct. She and stable hand James McDermott were convicted of the murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery, in 1843. The story is inspired by the real-life murder case involving Grace Marks, an Irish immigrant and maid in Upper Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.