Thursday, April 29, 2021

Development News - Grace Gummer Joins 'Let the Right One In'; Amazon's 'Hot Pink' Adds David Arquette; Plus 1 More Update!

Development News - April 29, 2021

Amazon's Hot Pink; Hulu's Olga Dies Dreaming; and Showtime's Let the Right One In.





AMAZON's HOT PINK
  • Nina Bloomgarden, David Iacono, Mimi Davila, Dana Donnelly, Myra Molloy and David Arquette have been cast as series regulars on the comedy pilot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Bloomgarden is a recent graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Iacono has previously recurred on Netflix's Grand Army, HBO Max's The Flight Attendant and Showtime's City on a Hill. Davila has recurred on Netflix's Voltron: Legendary Defender. Donnelly has guest starred on Freeform's Everything's Gonna Be Okay. Molloy has guest starred on Freeform's The Bold Type. Arquette stars in the Scream film franchise.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
SHOWTIME's LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
  • Grace Gummer has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Demián Bichir and Anika Noni Rose. She previously starred for three seasons in USA's Mr. Robot. She next stars in Peacock's upcoming limited series Dr. Death.
  • She will play Claire, the heiress of a pharmaceutical empire and a brilliant scientist who turned down the family's billion-dollar business to pursue a humbler, nobler career in disease research. But her life gets turned upside down when her estranged, ailing father summons her home and reveals a terrible secret.
HULU NEW PILOT ORDER
  • OLGA DIES DREAMING (Drama) - Based on the novel by Xochitl Gonzalez. Written and executive produced by Gonzalez. Directed and executive produced by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Produced by 20th Television. Logline: A Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn reckon with their absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City's elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.