After last month’s announcement that two-time Emmy winner Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live) had departed the project’s central role, Hulu’s limited series The Dropout has found its new star in Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (Mank), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Dropout hails from New Girl creator and showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether, who is set to executive produce the project alongside Liz Heldens (The Passage), Liz Hannah, Katherine Pope, podcast host and creator Rebeccar Jarvis, Victoria Thompson and Taylor Dunn, with Seyfried also set to produce.
Searchlight TV and 20th Television are producing the project for the streaming platform.
Labelled as a massive fraud, Holmes and her former Chief Operating Officer were subsequently indicted on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for distributing blood tests with falsified results to consumers.