The name of the show doesn’t necessarily give you the impression that this HULU original series will be set in the future. The series will be adapted from a popular book Published by Giannis Milonogiannis in 2011 ‘Old City Blues’.
Set in the year 2048, the story takes place in New Athens, on the ruins that once was known as Greece but is now crawling with high-tech criminals including smugglers, drug dealers and corrupt politicians and powerful corporations.
The potential series revolves around Solano, Thermidor and the rest of the New Athens Special Police, who endeavor to keep the city in check after the cyborg founder of a tech company is found dead.
While it’s unclear what role Kerry Washington would play in the series, we know that she will also be executing producing the show for HULU. The Scandal star will pretty much get to have her own version of Scandal in the future.
Along with ‘Old City Blues’ Washington already has ties with HULU in the original show ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ where she stars across Reese Witherspoon so this is really a no-brainer for both sides. Blacklist’s Arash Amel and Oscar winner Gore Verbinski are attached to write and direct the series, respectively and while there is no production start date, we can hope that it’s soon.
You can never get too much Kerry Washington.
