According to Hulu’s official logline, the final chapter of June’s journey will highlight the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom.
“June’s unyielding spirit and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead. Luke and Moira join the resistance. Serena tries to reform Gilean while Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they wrought, and Nick faces challenging tests of character,” reads the official logline.
In addition to Elisabeth Moss in the lead role, the Season 6 cast will also include Yvonne Strahovski, O-T Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Bradley Whitford, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, Sam Jaeger, Ever Carradine, and Josh Charles.
The adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a dystopian future, where women are forced to live under a theocratic dictatorship that stripped them of all fundamental rights. It won multiple awards over the years, including a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding drama series for its first season.
Season 6 will premiere on Hulu later this year, with 10 brand-new episodes.
The Handmaid’s Tale star and Avengers: Endgame’s actor will star in the forthcoming Jane Campion-helmed film adapted from Thomas Savage’s novel.
The story follows brothers Phil (Cumberbatch) and George Burbank. The two brothers are joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. When George secretly marries local widow Rose (Moss), an angry Phil wages a relentless war to destroy her by using her son Peter as a pawn.
“The Power of the Dog is a sublime novel that deserves a life on the big screen. I couldn’t stop thinking about the story, it really haunted me. The themes of masculinity, nostalgia and betrayal are an intoxicating mix,” Campion said. “It’s also rare to find a story where the themes, the plot and the characters build tension as they reveal each other and even the end is satisfying and unexpected. It will be the first time I’ve worked with a male lead, which is exciting. Phil is a charismatic and complex character who declares war on his brother’s new wife and her teenage son.”
The film is set to go into pre-production at the end of the year.
]]>The teaser begins with Moss looking out a window. “It’s morning again in America,” a narrator says. “Today, more women will go to work than ever before in our country’s history. This year, dozens of children will be born to happy and healthy families.” But then June aka Offred (Elisabeth Moss) voice takes over and she says, “Wake up, America,
The eerie trailer hints that life after June returns to Gilead to retrieve her daughter Hannah (Jordana Blake) will be more dangerous than ever. Earlier in the week, footage released by the streaming service also featured June in the pale blue garb for “Marthas,” which could mean she’s joined their network.
Hulu has yet to confirm the debut of the upcoming season, but if the first two seasons are an indication, than expect season three of The Handmaid’s Tale to arrive sometime this spring.
This promising women’s rights drama centers on the Jane Collective – an underground abortion service set it Chicago. It tells the story of the movement through the eyes of a 1960s traditional American housewife who has nowhere to turn after a pregnancy she desperately wanted turns into an imminent threat to her life.
Sian Heder will be in charge of directing this film, based on a script by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi. Call Jane will be produced by Robbie Brenner, who has fully confidence in the creative team she entrusted with bringing this story to life.
“I feel a responsibility with Call Jane to tell the incredible story of these brave women at a time when women’s rights and empowerment hangs in the balance. I have no doubt that Sian will craft a beautiful and important film with our dedicated and amazing cast, Elisabeth and Susan,” stated Brenner.
]]>The Academy Award-winning screenwriter is once again directing his own script. He is also producing through his Monkeypaw Productions together with Sean McKittrick and Jason Blum. Monkeypaw’s Ian Cooper will also serve as co-producer.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is said to center on two couples, one white and one black. Winston Duke and Lupita Nyong’o are circling to star as one couple while Elisabeth Moss is reported to play part of the other couple.
Duke and Nyong’O recently appeared in the blockbuster movie, Black Panther while Moss is currently starring on season 2 of the Emmy-award winning series The Handmaid’s Tale.
This film is Peele’s first project since winning an Oscar for Get Out. He became the first black writer to win Best Original Screenplay for his directorial debut. In addition to Us, he has signed on as executive producer for a four-part documentary series, Lorena, centered on Lorena Bobbitt for Amazon Prime. He’s also spearheading the revival of The Twilight Zone, alongside Simon Kinberg and Marco Ramirez, ET reports.
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Set to direct is Alex Ross Perry from his own script. Moss is producing the film alongside Matthew Perniciaro and Michael Sherman, Adam Piotrowicz, and Perry.
Moss will portray Becky Something, a destructive punk rock star who pushes her relationships with bandmates, family, and followers to the limit all the while battling to stay sober while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to success.
“With Her Smell, Alex has crafted another fantastic piece filled with memorable characters,” said Perniciaro. “The film represents his continued evolution as one of our most important emerging cinematic voices. We are so excited to see this story about powerful, talented, beautifully flawed yet heroically unapologetic women come to life.”
Production of Her Smell will begin after Moss wraps production on the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale.
]]>The cast and creatives from the series attended a panel at Sunday’s PaleyFest panel at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, where they dished on what’s to come in Gilead.
The panel included footage from the second season that included a sneak peek at Ofglen’s (Alexis Bledel) life in the Colonies and the joy when Offred’s (Elisabeth Moss) secret, that she’s carrying a baby for Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) is revealed to the other handmaids.
Showrunner Bruce Miller told EW ahead of the panel that the next season will explore aspects of Margaret Atwood’s novel not yet dealt with in the first season.
“Certain books you really feel like the end of the story is the end of the story; here, you almost feel like the book is the beginning of the story. So we really tried to follow our own curiosity and follow what we think is cool in the book that we didn’t get the chance to explore.”
Atwood is very much involved in the project and supportive of the creative decision made by the show’s execs, “She was happy for us to have our own plan,” Miller shared. “So that kind of encouragement really helps, when you have an author who we respect and love to have as part of the process, to have her blessing on our continuation of her world gives you a large amount of freedom and takes a lot of that pressure off. I think a lot of that pressure is worrying about making people mad, because I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Margaret Atwood mad at me.”
Miller and executive producer Warren Littlefield teased that “no one is safe” adding that in Gilead, “anyone could die.”
Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale premiere April 25 on Hulu
]]>The teaser was released on Thursday, International Women’s Day, and had female lead Elisabeth Moss say “Seriously? What the actual f—?”
The teaser opens with Elisabeth Moss who portrays Offred in the dystopian series narrating the all too familiar horrors of the Gilead, “Wear the red dress, wear the wings, shut your mouth, be a good girl, roll over and spread your legs, ‘yes, ma’am,’ ‘may the Lord open.’”
The footage also features other characters including Samira Wiley as Moira, Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia, and Alexis Bledel as Ofglen.
The horror, dread, and cruelty of the show will continue well into the second season as pregnant June struggles to secure a future for her unborn child.
The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 will premiere its first two episodes Wednesday, April 25 on Hulu.
Watch the teaser below!
]]>Hulu finally announced the return of the dystopian drama. The second season of The Handmaid’s Tale will return on Wednesday, April 25 with the first two episodes of the season.
The series was a huge success for the streaming service, taking home both the Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Drama Series.
Fans have been wondering what’s in store for the upcoming season. Show-runner Bruce Miller told EW that the he and Margaret Atwood, who wrote the novel by the same name, began discussing season two before the first season was even complete.
“The biggest barrier of season two was season one,” Miller said. “You sort of intimidate yourself. But at a certain point, you can’t spend all your time second-guessing things. Instead, you just have to remember to try and tell a good story.”
Hulu did more than confirm the premiere date of the upcoming season, it also released the first trailer for the new season, and it is grim and eerie. The trailer reveals that the oft-mentioned colonies outside of Gilead will definitely be part of the season. The trailer shows Moira (Samira Wiley) and Luke (O-T Fagbenle) safe together in Canada. But there’s no doubt that the highlight of the trailer is a reunion between pregnant June and Nick (Max Minghella), the father of her unborn child.
Check out the trailer below!
]]>The independent production will be Moss’s first feature follow-up to Hulu’s hit series and she will play the title character.
Simon Curtis, who served as director on My Week With Marilyn, will helm the film. Robbie Brenner is producing along with Jeff Kwatinetz and Kevin McKeonand. The screenplay is written by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi and is based on a true story.
The film centers on the story of a 1960s movement called the Jane Collective. Set in Chicago, it focuses on a network of suburban women who secretly provided safe abortions for women. Moss’ character, a married woman who becomes pregnant unexpectedly, turns to the group of women for help.
Moss took to Instagram to share the news with her fans. She wrote, “So thrilled to announce this new film with director Simon Curtis about the Jane Collective… an incredible group that’s story has never been told before.”
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