Here at Empire HQ, we have our fair share of film and TV white whales we've never given up chasing. The MCU's Blade, a sequel to The Nice Guys, Peter Jackson's Tintin 2, Guillermo del Toro's At The Mountains Of Madness, and Denis Villeneuve's Rendezvous With Rama all keep us up at night, wondering what might've been and could yet be. But now, thanks to THR, we've actually got a real-life update on one such long-awaited project: Big Little Lies Season 3! Per THR's reporting, Mr. And Mrs. Smith co-writer Francesca Sloane has come aboard to write the first episode of the next instalment in HBO's wildly popular adaptation/expansion of Liane Moriarty's eponymous mystery book. Finally in development after years of predominantly cast and creative led campaigning, the third season of showrunner David E. Kelley's many, many award-winning Big Little Lies is expected to see series regulars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern, and Shailene Woodley return as the five Californian women brought into each others' lives by the death of a serial abuser (Alexander Skarsgård).