HULU AND BBC 'HARD SUN' PRE APOCALYPTIC CRIME SERIES WITH JIM STURGESS! ALEXIS BLEDEL JOINS JOSEPH FIENNES, ELISABETH MOSS IN 'HANDMAID'S TALE' SF SERIES

JIM STURGESS' 'HARD SUN' 

PRE APOCALYPTIC TV SERIES!

News coming from Hulu today for you, beginning with the newly announced pre–apocalyptic crime drama HARD SUN which they will produce in six episodes together with BBC!

Set in contemporary London, it centres on detectives Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn), partners and enemies who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction. Hicks is a family man and a great, committed officer. He’s also profoundly corrupt. Renko is a difficult and damaged, but utterly incorruptible officer. Thus, the two cops stand on different ends of the social and moral spectrum and also seriously distrust one other – and for good reason. But they must somehow learn to work together if they’re going to survive until the end of the world.

'THE HANDMAID'S TALE' SERIES

ALEXIS BLEDEL JOINS JOSEPH FIENNES IN THE CAST

Hulu has also cast Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel for their April 26th dystopian sf series THE HANDMAID'S TALE where she will play Ofglen, a pious rule follower, loyal to the oppressive Gilead system, who turns out to be daring and subversive.

DYSTOPIA OF GILEAD
The adaptation of Margaret Atwood novel is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what formerly was part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism regime that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the  Commander’s (Joseph Fiennes) household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world.

1ST PHOTOS FROM 'A HANDMAID'S TALE' DYSTOPIAN TV SERIES WITH JOSEPH FIENNES, ELISABETH MOSS! 'THE WOODS' SF COMIC BOOK TO BECOME TV SERIES

'THE WOODS' COMIC BOOK

TO BE ADAPTED INTO SERIES

In TV news this Saturday, SyFy has announced that they're developing new sf series based on THE WOODS comic book to be produced and helmed by San Andreas director Brad Peyton!

THE WOODS is set in Wisconsin where an entire high school campus, including the 300 students, teachers, parents and workers who happened to be there at the time, vanishes without a trace and reappears in the middle of the thick woods on the moon of a distant planet. Now their normal lives have suddenly and dramatically changed as they must survive the eerie and dangerous environment while desperately trying to find a way to get back home.

'A HANDMAID'S TALE' 

1ST PHOTOS FROM THE TV SERIES

Meanwhile, Hulu has released first pictures from their upcoming new series A HANDMAID'S TALE based on Margaret Atwood's novel which will air next April starring Elisabeth Moss,  Joseph Fiennes and Yvonne Strahovski!

A HANDMAID'S TALE is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s (Joseph Fiennes) household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.

NEW ADAPTATIONS: JOSEPH FIENNES TO LEAD 'A HANDMAID'S TALE' TV SERIES, BBC TO ADAPT SEVEN AGATHA CHRISTIE'S NOVEL INTO SERIES, 'CUCKOO SONG' YA NOVEL TO BECOME MINI TV SERIES

JOSEPH FIENNES TO LEAD

'A HANDMAID'S TALE' TV SERIES  
We're talking about new book adaptations today, starting with the news coming from the small screen adaptation of Margaret Atwood's A HANDMAID'S TALE which has just cast Joseph Fiennes in the lead male role!

Hulu's ten episode series is set in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s (Joseph Fiennes) household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her. Max Minghella, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley and Madeline Brewer will also star. 

BBC TO ADAPT SEVEN MORE

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S NOVELS  
A word comes over from BBC that they will adapt seven of Agatha Christie's novels into series after And Then There Were None and The Witness for the Prosecution which is currently in production with Kim Cattrall in the lead role. The first among the books which will be adapted in next four years is Ordeal By Innocence which explores the psychology of innocence, while Death Comes As The End, a murder mystery set in Ancient Egypt, and The ABC Murders, a race against time to stop a serial killer who is operating across 1930s Britain, have also been confirmed so far!

'CUCKOO SONG' YA NOVEL

TO BE TURNED INTO TV SERIES
Meanwhile, UK's Catalyst Global Media is planning to make a four part TV series out of Frances Hardinge's YA fantasy novel CUCKOO SONG in which the story is set in 1920s England where a young girl wakes after an accident to find herself and the life around her eerily altered. Her diary is of no help to her memory loss because all of the pages have been ripped out, her sister seems frightened of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She soon unearths a magical world and embarks on a quest to repair her broken family which is still haunted by the events of World War I.

SF MONDAY: ELISABETH MOSS TO LEAD 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE' TV SERIES REMAKE AT HULU! AMAZON TO ADAPT 'THE BOOK OF STRANGE THINGS' SF NOVEL INTO SERIES

ELISABETH MOSS TO LEAD

'HANDMAID'S TALE' SF SERIES

Probably the main TV news coming to us this weekend was that Hulu will do a remake of classic series THE HANDMAID'S TALE based on Margaret Atwood's book with Elisabeth Moss taking the lead role!

DYSTOPIA OF GILEAD  
It is set in the dystopian Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted religious fundamentalism that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead — with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.

'STRANGE NEW THINGS' 

TO BECOME SF TV SERIES

Speaking of sf, Amazon will turn Michel Faber's critically renowned book THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS into a 10 episode series to be helmed by Kevin Macdonald with music from Brian Eno!  The story revolves around Peter Leigh, an English pastor who embarks on the journey of a lifetime into deep space that takes him light years away from his beloved wife, Bea. As' Deadline' reports, 'while the project’s scale is believed to be epic, described as “Heart Of Darkness in space, at its centre is a heart-wrenching love story of a husband and wife with the universe between them'.