Ellen Pompeo is bidding farewell to “Gray’s Anatomy” in lower than a month and now she’s sto a brand new mission. Deadline reviews that she’ll lead the Untitled Orphan Venture, a restricted collection within the works at Hulu. Two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus is on board to direct.
Created and written by Katie Robbins (“The Affair”), the ABC Signature drama is “impressed by the true story of a Midwestern couple who adopts who they imagine is an eight-year-old lady with a uncommon type of dwarfism. However as they start to boost her alongside their three organic kids, they slowly begin to imagine she might not be who she says she is. The true-life story has drawn parallels to the 2009 horror film ‘Orphan,’” the supply notes.
An eight-episode restricted collection is deliberate. Pompeo and Garbus are among the many mission’s exec producers. Erin Levy (“Mad Males”) will function showrunner.
Garbus nabbed an Emmy nod helming the Season 4 finale of “The Handmaid’s Story.” She obtained Oscar noms for her docs “What Occurred, Miss Simone?” and “The Farm: Angola, USA.” Her latest credit embrace “Harry & Meghan” and “Yellowjackets.”
Pompeo will say goodbye to Gray Sloan Memorial February 23. The ABC medical drama, now in its nineteenth season, will proceed in her absence. “Catch Me If You Can” and “Previous College” are amongst Pompeo’s movie credit.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
