Anna Paquin tapped to star in that other Margaret Atwood adaptation
Television’s hottest trend in 2016 is Margaret Atwood. Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale miniseries is getting most of the buzz, especially since it stars Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley, who are two of the most captivating actors on television and yet don’t have a mountain of awards to show for it. (Moss never won an individual acting award for her work on Mad Men, Wiley has yet to be nominated for an individual acting award, and both of those facts are absurd). Meanwhile, Netflix is all “we want in on that Atwood action, too”: As we previously reported, Netflix is making a six-part miniseries adaptation of Atwood’s 1996 novel Alias Grace, which is being developed by Sarah Polley (Take This Waltz, Away From Her) and Mary Harron (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol). Deadline now reports that Anna Paquin will star in Alias Grace as mainstream television’s favorite type of character: a woman who gets murdered.