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Elisabeth Moss is about so as to add to her ever-busy slate with a brand new restricted sequence for FX on Hulu. The “The Handmaid’s Story” star will topline thriller “The Veil.” In accordance with Deadline, Denise Di Novi (“Heathers”) and former CBS Leisure chairwoman Nina Tassler will be part of Moss as exec producers.
The supply particulars that the sequence will discover “the stunning and fraught relationship between two ladies who play a lethal recreation of fact and lies on the highway from Istanbul to Paris and London. One lady has a secret, the opposite a mission to disclose it earlier than hundreds of lives are misplaced.” No phrase but on who will star reverse Moss.
Stated author and EP Steven Knight, “I’m completely thrilled to be telling this story, which is actually worldwide and really up to date. Now we have gathered collectively a number of the most gifted individuals within the enterprise. Working with Denise Di Novi is at all times a pleasure and I’ve needed to work with Elisabeth Moss for a very long time. … I feel this will probably be a landmark tv occasion.”
Apart from “The Handmaid’s Story” — for which she gained two Emmy awards together with Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Series — Moss’ most up-to-date credit have included Josephine Decker’s Shirley Jackson biopic “Shirley” and Apple TV+ sequence “Shining Ladies.”
Elsewhere in TV information, Deadline has additionally solely revealed {that a} historic comedy sequence about short-lived British monarch Lady Jane Grey has been greenlit at Amazon, with Emily Bader (“Paranormal Exercise: Subsequent of Kin”) set to star because the younger Tudor. Gemma Burgess (creator of the “Brooklyn Ladies” trilogy) and Meredith Glynn (“The Boys”) will probably be co-showrunners and co-exec producers on the present, which is predicated on the “The Lady Janies” sequence of YA historic novels penned by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows.
Jamie Babbit (“However I’m A Cheerleader”) is signed on to direct the pilot and can function producing director.
The sequence will observe Jane, who “dreads her organized marriage, solely to be shocked when it leads to a steamy romance, her being topped Queen, and a heroic mission to save lots of the magical individuals persecuted by her political rivals.”
Bader additionally counts the “Charmed” reboot amongst her credit, and is connected to star in Jennifer Esposito’s crime drama “Contemporary Kills.”
With directing credit on “Russian Doll,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and the upcoming “A League of Their Personal” sequence, Babbit most not too long ago earned an Emmy nomination for Excellent Directing for a Comedy Series for “Solely Murders within the Constructing.”
