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Ewan McGregor is in final negotiations to star in road trip drama “Don’t Make Me Go”.
Michael Sucsy is directing the film about “a single father to a teenage daughter who, upon learning that he has a fatal brain tumor, decides to take her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life” (via THR).
Vera Herbert wrote the 2012 Black List script.
David Gyasi has joined Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Oscar Isaac in writer/director Alex Garland’s “Annihilation”.
Garland adapted the script from Jeff VanderMeer’s novel.
The story follows a biologist, to be played by Portman, as she embarks on a four-person expedition into Area X, a territory cut off from civilization. While there, she must deal with a mysterious contamination, disappearing colleagues, a deadly animal and a being known as the Crawler, all while searching for clues regarding her husband’s disappearance. – via Variety.
Hulu has given a straight-to-series order for “The Handmaid’s Tale”, an ongoing drama series from MGM Television with Elizabeth Moss set to star.
The series will be created, exec produced and written by Bruce Miller with Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears and Warren Littlefield serving as executive producers. Atwood will serve as Consulting Producer for the series, which will debut its first season on Hulu in 2017.
Golden Globe® Winner Elisabeth Moss (TOP OF THE LAKE, TRUTH, MAD MEN) is Offred, a Handmaid trying to survive in the male-dominated totalitarian regime of Gilead. Enslaved by a society that values only her fertility, Offred must find a way to survive in this world of oppression and swift, cruel punishments.
Adapted from Margaret Atwood’s influential and acclaimed novel, THE HANDMAID’S TALE is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted religious fundamentalism that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead — all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.
