The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)

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This has been ordered to series by Hulu starring Elizabeth Moss to come out in 2017 :disco:

Not sure if the story has ten episodes in it but it will definitely be better than the movie.
 
Apart from Faye Dunnaway, the move was massive let down. I definitely think there is ten episodes here, as each day, task or room was filled with such dread, strategy, sardonic humour and anxiety that they could totally pull it off. Ah Offred. I'm looking forward to this.
 
OMG.

The book is amazing, this is stunning news. I never watched the film due to terrible reviews.
 
Great news. I really want this to be a stage play. I'd love to direct it.
 
Our Atwood cup runneth over!

http://www.avclub.com/article/sarah-polley-and-american-psychos-mary-harron-team-238574

Sarah Polley and American Psycho’s Mary Harron team up for Margaret Atwood series

Who would have predicted that the hottest commodity in TV this year would be a 76-year-old Canadian feminist poet? (Okay, sure, maybe we’ve thought about it. But we wouldn’t have predicted it.) Yet, here we are, receiving press releases announcing that Margaret Atwood’s 1996 novel Alias Grace is being developed as a six-part TV miniseries by Sarah Polley (Take This Waltz, Away From Her) and Mary Harron (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol) for Netflix.

This news comes less than two months after the announcement of a Hulu series of another of Atwood’s novels, The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss, suggesting either a super elite Margaret Atwood book club in Hollywood somewhere or a feminist-literature arms race between the two streaming services. (We’ll know when the competing Alice Walker projects start getting announced a few months from now.)

Polley wrote the teleplay and will produce from Atwood’s novel, while Harron will direct. Polley’s been an Atwood fan for a long time—“I first read Alias Grace when I was 17 years old and throughout the last 20 years I have read it over and over, trying to get to the bottom of it,” she says—while Harron notes Polley’s adaptation of the story “combines the richness of period drama with the tension and mystery of a modern day Serial.” For those less familiar with the material, Alias Grace tells the story of Grace Marks, a servant in 19th-century Canada who is convicted of the murder of her employer and a housekeeper. While she’s in jail, she meets a young doctor who researches her case and becomes convinced of her innocence, falling in love with her in the process.

Production on Alias Grace begins this August in Ontario; the miniseries will be broadcast on the CBC in Canada, and Netflix everywhere else.
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If they get this right it has the potential to be spectacular.
 
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Also Darreb Aronofsky is developing Oryx and Crake for HBO called MaddAdam.
 
Samira Wiley (Poussey from Orange is the New Black) has been cast in The Handmaid's Tale as Moira, Offred's best friend.
 
VoR said:
Samira Wiley (Poussey from Orange is the New Black) has been cast in The Handmaid's Tale as Moira, Offred's best friend.
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:disco: wow

I'm reading Alias Grace now.
 
She's not who I'd have in mind, but her final scene with Offred in that sleazy brothel-discotheque I remember being really moved by.
 
I was looking at the IMDb page and apparently Ann Dowd has been cast as Aunt Lydia which is another amazing casting.
 
Joseph Fienns will be playing the commander and Yvone Strahovaki will play Serena which makes no sense.
 
Of the movie's flaws, Robert Duvall's casting was not one of them. Meh, I suppose Fienns is nice to look at - he'd be better as that soldier Offred is told to try and get herself pregnant by, but I suppose that wouldn't be a big enough part.
 
The bigger problem is that Serena is supposed to be older and shriveled which is not possible with this actress.
 


It looks great and apparently they are deviating from the book. There is talk of it being more than one season although I'm not sure if that's true.
 
Ag said:
Me neither. Who the blazes are you with 214 posts since 2007?
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I'd say quality over quantity but I give neither.

This is eerie as well.



God I hope this is brilliant. Shame it's on Hulu.
 
No, that's Joseph Fiennes of Shakespeare in Love
 
Such a shame Shakespeare in Love started doing throw away lazy tropical house.
 
It looks how I and I assume everyone imagines it. But then it would, what with Atwood's vivid description.
 
I kept meaning to read this prior to watching it but never got around to it.

Is it essential to read the book first or should I just watch the show and then read afterwards?
 
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this has started. anyone?
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I watched he first ten minutes last night, seemed great but I have so many shows that I might wait until next week. I still need to catch up with Line of Duty before the finale.
 
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