It reportedly spawned a bidding war between Netflix, Hulu and Apple before Netflix ended up securing the rights.
The series is a prequel to 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, with Paulson playing a younger version of the villainous Nurse Ratched.
The film also won awards for Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman).
The series was created by recent film school graduate Evan Romansky, who wrote the script on spec.
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