Casting for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is well underway. We’ve already seen who’s been cast as Offred (Elisabeth Moss) and found out last week who’s been cast as the Commander (Joseph Fiennes). This week Hulu has found the companion to their Commander and has cast Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy. Serena Joy, for...
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Ever since Hulu announced that they were going to adapt Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, I’ve been on edge waiting to see who was going to be cast as what. The 1990 movie adaptation of the novel did not do the original work justice. After finding out that Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) was cast as Offred and that Margaret...
Netflix and Canadian broadcaster CBC teamed up to greenlight Alias Grace, a six-hour miniseries from Sarah Polley (Away from Her) and Halfire Entertainment. The series is inspired by a historical fiction of the same name by Margaret Atwood. Synopsis of the novel: In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most...
Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic of futuristic dystopian fiction. Set in the Republic of Gilead, it tells the tail of Offred, a woman who lives through the rise of religious fascism in the former United States, and is subject to a social order designed to stringently oppress women. A...