Last week,
there was an announcement that Hulu, an American online company and streaming
service, will be screening a 10-episode drama series based on the
award-winning, best-selling novel The
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Elisabeth
Moss will play 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.
Atwood will
serve as consulting producer for the show, which was given a straight-to-series
order by the online television streaming service. ‘I am thrilled that MGM and Hulu are
developing The Handmaid’s Tale as a
series, and extra thrilled that the very talented Elisabeth Moss will be
playing the central character. The Handmaid's Tale is more relevant now
than when it was written, and I am sure the series will be watched with great
interest. I have read the first two
scripts and they are excellent; I can hardly wait to see the finished
episodes,’ said Atwood (http://www.hulu.com/press/posts/hulu-announces-straight-to-series-order-for-the-handmaid-s-tale-from-mgm-television).
The series
will go into production later this year and will premiere on Hulu in 2017. Unfortunately, Hulu is not available in
Canada!
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