Hulu Picks Up “Foster Dade” Series
Hulu has picked up a brand new script by Greg Berlanti, who has previously worked on several shows including many DC shows such as “The Flash”, “Supergirl” and “Superman & Lois”, in addition to some films like “Fly Me To The Moon” and “Love, Simon”.
Deadline has revealed that Greg Berlanti is currently working on three different projects. Amazon has picked up “Stillwater”, which is a mind-bending horror thriller based on the Skybound comic book series by Chip Zdarsky and Ramon K. Perez. At the same time, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max is currently in negotiations for a new family project.
The third project is called “Foster Dade”, which Hulu has brought the spec script for. The script has been written by Greg Berlanti and Bash Doran (Life After Life). Hulu has fast-tracked the project for a pilot order.
This new series is based on the 2023 novel “Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos” by Nash Jenkins, a mystery set in a boarding school. Here is the official description for the novel:
Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens
When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack Obama begins his first term as president; Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit bump from the newly debuted iPhone; teenagers share confidences and rumors over BlackBerry Messenger and iChat; and the internet as we know it is slowly emerging from its cocoon. So, too, is Foster emerging―a transfer student and anxious young man, Foster is stumbling through adolescence in the wake of his parents’ scandalous divorce. But Foster soon finds himself in the company of Annabeth Whittaker and Jack Albright, the twin centers of Kennedy’s social gravity, who take him under their wing to navigate the cliques and politics of the carelessly entitled.
Eighteen months later, Foster will be expelled, following a tragic scandal that leaves Kennedy and its students irreparably changed. When our nameless narrator inherits Foster’s old dorm room, he begins an epic yearslong investigation into what exactly happened. Through interviews with former classmates, Foster’s blog posts, playlists, and text archives, and the narrator’s own obsessive imagination, a story unfurls―Foster’s, yes, but also one that asks us who owns our personal narratives, and how we shape ourselves to be the heroes or villains of our own stories.
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos is about privilege and power, the pitfalls of masculinity and its expectations, and, most distinctly, how we create the mythologies that give meaning to our lives. With his debut novel, Nash Jenkins brilliantly captures the emotional intensities of adolescence in the dizzying early years of the twenty-first century.
As with other shows in development, this project may not necessarily come to our screens and it could be a while until we see it arrive on Hulu and Hulu On Disney+ in the United States and on Disney+ internationally.
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