Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried is replacing Kate McKinnon as the star of Hulu's limited drama series The Dropout. Based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast of the same name, the project will chronicle the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. Seyfried will lead the series as Holmes, the inexplicable Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Once worth billions of dollars, Holmes was revealed to be a monster whose ground-breaking tech never actually worked. As a result of her lies, Holmes placed thousands of people's health in danger. She's bad news bears, folks. Like, Martin Shkreli levels of douchebaggery. Watching her fall from grace would be entertaining if it were not at the expense of others.
Executive producing The Dropout is showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether, Liz Heldens, Liz Hannah, Katherine Pope, Rebecca Jarvis, Victoria Thompson, and Taylor Dunn.
Seyfried, who recently received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her role as Marion Davies in David Fincher's Mank, feels like a perfect fit to play Holmes. After all, Seyfriend is incredibly charismatic, which is a trait you have to have in spades if you hope to dupe people out of billions. I look forward to seeing what the former Mean Girl can do with the role, and I wish the real Elizabeth homes a miserable future indeed.