The Maddaddam series adaptation will hail from Paramount Television Studios and will be executive produced by Lesslie and Atwood. Anonymous Content’s David Kanter and Bard Dorros are also serving as executive producers along with Makemake Entertainment’s Angus Wall and Kent Kubena. RELATED: All the Movies & Shows Coming to & Leaving Hulu in April 2021 Thrilling, moving, and a triumph of imagination, the Maddaddam Trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love. Set in a darkly plausible future shaped by plagues, floods, and genetic engineering, these three novels take us from the end of the world to a brave new beginning. And in Maddaddam a small group of survivors band together with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth. In The Year of the Flood the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. In search of answers, he embarks on a journey through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride.

In Oryx and Crake, a man struggles to survive in a world where he may be the last human. The books’ official synopsis reads as follows: The apocalyptic thriller story deals with genetic reinvention, corporate domination and young love and centers around the characters of Crake, Oryx, Ren, and Toby.Ĭlick here to purchase the trilogy novel here!

The trilogy novel was first described as a speculative fiction and adventure romance. This marks the third collaboration between Atwood and Hulu as they have also previously announced the development of the series adaptation of The Testaments which was the best-selling author’s 2019 follow-up novel to 1985’s The Handmaid’s Tale novel.įirst published in 2003, Maddaddam is actually the third novel in Atwood’s dystopian trilogy which was preceded by 2003’s Oryx and Crake and 2009’s The Year of the Flood. RELATED: Hulu Greenlights Fifth Season of The Handmaid’s Tale Michael Leslie ( The Little Drummer Girl) has signed on to the project to pen the pilot and serve as an executive producer. Ahead of the upcoming debut of the fourth season of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu is continuing to strengthen their partnership with acclaimed author Margaret Atwood as they plan to develop a new series, based on another one of Atwood’s popular dystopian stories titled Maddaddam, according to Deadline.