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The studio and streaming giant, already home to the series based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel, are developing the author's follow-up for the screen.

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00:00It's time to dive deeper into Margaret Atwood's dystopian world as the author's

00:04follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale is officially making its way to the small screen.

00:08MGM and Hulu announced Wednesday that they're developing the sequel to Atwood's

00:12best-selling 1985 dystopian novel titled The Testaments. The sequel, which the author

00:17started writing in 2016 and publishes September 10th, will pick up more than 15 years

00:22after the ambiguous ending of the original Handmaid's Tale novel. Instead of being

00:25told from the perspective of Offred, played by Elizabeth Moss in the show, The

00:29Testaments will be narrated by three other women connected to Gilead, a young woman

00:33raised in the oppressive society, a Canadian teen who learns she was actually born in

00:38Gilead, and a deeper look inside the mind of Aunt Lydia, the villain of both the novel

00:42and the series. The original series, which recently wrapped its third season, has stuck

00:46closely to the novel for its first season, but has since moved beyond the source

00:50material for its latter two seasons and has expanded the world of Atwood's novel.

00:54So since the sequel picks up a mere 15 years later, it goes without saying that the new

00:58series will inevitably impact the events of the current show. As part of a Time

01:02magazine cover story, Atwood hints about how it would all fall into play, saying

01:15Speaking with THR before the season three premiere, Handmaid's Tale showrunner Bruce

01:19Miller agreed that the sequel will directly impact his version of events, saying,

01:23I don't know how much she's going to follow our lead in The Testaments. Certainly we are

01:27living in Margaret's world. In the end, this show, my show, is built to be a companion

01:31piece to both of those books.

01:33The Handmaid's Tale has proven to be successful for Hulu, winning 11 Emmys for its first two

01:38seasons, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2017. The sequel move marks the third

01:43collaboration between Atwood and MGM Television. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, the

01:47studio has acquired the rights to Atwood's 2015 novel, The Heart Goes Last, which follows a young

01:52couple hit by job loss and bankruptcy during a nationwide economic collapse. For more

01:57updates to this story, hit to THR.com and until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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