Elisabeth Moss is ready 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 a part of Moss as exec producers.
The supply particulars that the sequence will discover “the stunning and fraught relationship between two girls who play a lethal sport of fact and lies on the street from Istanbul to Paris and London. One girl 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 really worldwide and really modern. We’ve got gathered collectively among the most gifted individuals within the enterprise. Working with Denise Di Novi is all the time a pleasure and I’ve wished to work with Elisabeth Moss for a very long time. … I feel this shall be a landmark tv occasion.”
In addition to “The Handmaid’s Story” — for which she gained two Emmy awards together with Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Collection — Moss’ most up-to-date credit have included Josephine Decker’s Shirley Jackson biopic “Shirley” and Apple TV+ sequence “Shining Women.”
Elsewhere in TV information, Deadline has additionally solely revealed {that a} historic comedy sequence about short-lived British monarch Woman Jane Gray 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 Women” trilogy) and Meredith Glynn (“The Boys”) shall be co-showrunners and co-exec producers on the present, which relies on the “The Woman 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 stunned when it ends in 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 lately earned an Emmy nomination for Excellent Directing for a Comedy Collection for “Solely Murders within the Constructing.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood