Hulu has given a script order for an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo and Nebula award-winning Binti trilogy. The Hollywood Reporter noted that Stacy Osei-Kuffour (Watchmen, PEN15, The Morning Show) will co-write the script with Okorafor. The studio is Media Res, the banner launched by former HBO drama head Michael Ellenberg, who will executive produce alongside Osei-Kuffour and Okorafor.
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Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle, Coco) has been cast as Arthur, "a famous actor from a small island off the coast of Mexico," in HBO Max's Station Eleven, a 10-episode limited series based on Emily St. John Mandel's novel, Deadline reported. The project will be written and executive produced by Maniac creator Patrick Somerville, who will also serve as showrunner, for Paramount TV.