2019-11-13 The Hollywood Reporter

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Rachel Gao

REPS ICM, 3 Arts,

Morris Yorn

WHY SHE MATTERS

An Emmy-winning

writer for Rick and

Morty, Gao has been

tapped to develop and

serve as head writer for

Disney+’s Marvel series

She-Hulk. Along with her

animated work on shows

such as Nickelodeon’s

The Mighty B!, Gao has

written episodes for

HBO’s Silicon Valley,

and this year wrote

and executive produced

comedy pilot Lazy Rich

Asians for ABC.

Narcos: Mexico actor
Tenoch Huerta (WME,
Thruline, Hirsch
Wallerstein) will star in the
latest Purge horror thriller.

Stranger Things’ Sadie
Sink (Paradigm, Mara,
Peikoff Mahan) will star in
indie coming-of-age drama
Dear Zoe.

Paper Towns writers Scott
Neustadter and Michael H.
Weber (Kaplan/Perrone,
Marks) have teamed
with Elizabeth Gabler’s
3000 Pictures to develop
Nothing to See Here.

TELEVISION
Kate McKinnon (UTA,
Artists First, Hansen
Jacobson) will star in a
series adaptation of podcast
Joe Exotic from Universal
Content Productions.

Ava DuVernay (CAA,

Del Shaw) is teaming

with former Queen Sugar

showrunner Kat Candler to

develop an untitled Texas

labor union drama for TNT.

Mary-Louise Parker

(CAA, Untitled) will star

in a Weeds sequel series

for Starz, moving from

Showtime.

Courtney B. Vance

(WME, Fox Rothschild)

will play Aretha Franklin’s

father in National

Geographic anthology

Genius: Aretha.

DIGITAL

Zoe Saldana (CAA,

LBI, Morris Yorn) will

star in and exec produce

Netflix limited series

From Scratch alongside

Reese Witherspoon.

Adam Scott (WME, Rise,

Ziffren Brittenham) will

star in Apple TV+ thriller

series Severance, directed

by Ben Stiller.

D’Arcy Carden (UTA, Rise,

Jackoway Austen) will star

alongside Abbi Jacobson

in Amazon’s A League of

Their Own series.

Kaitlyn Dever (UTA, Felker

To c z e k) and Jonathan

Tucker (UTA, Management

360 , Hansen Jacobson)

will star in the first episode

of Hulu’s horror anthology

series Monsterland.

Will Graham (UTA,

Kaplan/Perrone, Hansen

Jacobson) has joined

Amazon’s Daisy Jones and

the Six as showrunner, after

renewing his overall deal

with the streamer.

Kristen Bell (CAA,

Schreck Rose) will return

as the narrator for HBO

Max’s Gossip Girl reboot.

Michelle Wolf (UTA,

Dixon, Hansen Jacobson)

will return to Netflix with a

new comedy special.

Apple TV+ has renewed

Dickinson, See and For

All Mankind for second

seasons. ... DC Universe

has renewed Titans for a

third season.

REAL ESTATE

Oprah Winfrey

(Coldwell Banker) has

purchased neighbor

Jeff Bridges’ (Coldwell

Banker) four-acre

Montecito, California, home

for $6.85 million.

— COMPILED BY KIRSTEN CHUBA

AND REBECCA SUN

Saldana Farrell Winfrey expands her 42-acre compound by buying out Bridges.

Wesley Sn ipes, now star-

ring in Netflix’s Dolemite

Is My Name, has left APA

for CAA.

Hong Chau, currently

on HBO’s Watchmen,

has signed with ICM

Partners.

Record producer and art

collector Swizz Beatz

has signed with UTA.

GLOW’s Chris Lowell,

who plays Bash on the

Netflix series, has left

WME for ICM Partners.

Adrien Brody has signed

with CAA.

$

740M

The losses for Disney’s direct-to-

consumer and international

division — where Disney+ results

will show up — in its latest earnings

quarter, disclosed Nov. 7.