00:00SNL breakout star Kate McKinnon has landed the lead role of Elizabeth Holmes in a Hulu
00:04series about the Theranos founder. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that McKinnon will
00:08star in and executive produced The Dropout, a limited series detailing the rise and fall
00:13of Theranos and Holmes herself. The Dropout will examine how Holmes raised hundreds of
00:17millions of dollars to fund her biotech startup Theranos and became something of a celebrity
00:21while hiding the fact that her blood testing machine didn't actually work. The intriguing
00:25Theranos story is also the subject of John Carreau's book, Bad Blood, which is being
00:29adapted into a feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Adam McKay, as well
00:34as the HBO documentary The Inventor, which premiered in March. McKinnon follows fellow SNL
00:39regular A.B. Bryant to Hulu for her first series regular role outside of the long-running
00:43NBC sketch show. Bryant's comedy Shrill premiered on the streamer in March. For Hulu,
00:48The Dropout is the latest in a growing list of limited series projects. The streamer is
00:52currently airing the true crime drama The Act and has Catch-22 and Veronica Mars on
00:56Deck for later in the year. Meanwhile, Hulu's The Looming Tower earned four Emmy nominations
01:00in 2018 and the streamer has also aired the Stephen King adaptation 11-22-63.
01:07To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hoyt Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.
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