EXCLUSIVE: Hulu’s Margaret Atwood adaptation of The Testaments has discovered its first director.
Emmy-nominated The Handmaid’s Story and Fargo helmer Mike Barker will direct the primary three eps and likewise EP the high-profile MGM Tv-produced collection, which has been within the works for some time and is nearing greenlight. Different administrators are but to be revealed.
British director Barker has helmed 12 eps of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Story, acknowledged with two Emmy noms. His different credit embrace ITV hit Broadchurch, Fargo and David Duchovny-starring Prime Video thriller Malice, which launches later this yr.
Bruce Miller’s Testaments collection is among the hottest TV exhibits percolating at current. The Handmaid’s Story sequel has solid Presumed Harmless‘s Chase Infiniti as one of many three leads, becoming a member of Ann Dowd, who had been anticipated to reprise her Emmy-winning function as Lydia, and Lucy Halliday (Blue Jean). We perceive cameras will roll quickly in Canada.
The Testaments takes place within the dystopian theocracy of Gilead greater than 15 years after the occasions of The Handmaid’s Story. The story follows the lives of three girls, Aunt Lydia (Dowd), Agnes (Infiniti) and Daisy (Halliday), whose fates change into intertwined as they uncover the secrets and techniques of Gilead and the resistance in opposition to its regime.
The 2019 e book was vastly profitable and went on to win the Booker Prize with Bernardine Evaristo’s Woman, Girl, Different.
The Testaments is govt produced by Miller, Baker, Warren Littlefield and Steve Stark. MGM Tv is the studio.
