Elisabeth Moss is ready so as to add to her ever-busy slate with a brand new restricted collection for FX on Hulu. The “The Handmaid’s Story” star will topline thriller “The Veil.” Based on Deadline, Denise Di Novi (“Heathers”) and former CBS Leisure chairwoman Nina Tassler will be part of Moss as exec producers.
The supply particulars that the collection will discover “the stunning and fraught relationship between two girls who play a lethal recreation of fact and lies on the highway from Istanbul to Paris and London. One girl has a secret, the opposite a mission to disclose it earlier than 1000’s of lives are misplaced.” No phrase but on who will star reverse Moss.
Mentioned author and EP Steven Knight, “I’m completely thrilled to be telling this story, which is actually worldwide and really up to date. We’ve gathered collectively a few of the most gifted individuals within the enterprise. Working with Denise Di Novi is at all times a pleasure and I’ve needed to work with Elisabeth Moss for a very long time. … I believe this might be a landmark tv occasion.”
Apart from “The Handmaid’s Story” — for which she received 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+ collection “Shining Ladies.”
Elsewhere in TV information, Deadline has additionally completely revealed {that a} historic comedy collection 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 Ladies” trilogy) and Meredith Glynn (“The Boys”) might be co-showrunners and co-exec producers on the present, which relies on the “The Woman Janies” collection 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 collection will comply with Jane, who “dreads her organized marriage, solely to be shocked when it leads to a steamy romance, her being topped Queen, and a heroic mission to avoid wasting the magical individuals persecuted by her political rivals.”
Bader additionally counts the “Charmed” reboot amongst her credit, and is hooked up to star in Jennifer Esposito’s crime drama “Recent Kills.”
With directing credit on “Russian Doll,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and the upcoming “A League of Their Personal” collection, Babbit most just lately earned an Emmy nomination for Excellent Directing for a Comedy Collection for “Solely Murders within the Constructing.”
