Hulu’s “The Dropout” will continue without Kate McKinnon, who will star in the lead role and CEO the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos and her dramatic fall of grace.
The limited drama series now wants to play a new actor to play the entrepreneur before the planned summer production begins.
The series is based on ABC Radio and ABC News’ podcast about the infamous inventor, who dropped out of Stanford to found Theranos. The company invented the Edison machine, a diagnostic tool that promises an easy way to test 200 diseases. But the machine did not work as she claimed, although it attracted wealthy investors, including Betsy DeVos and Rupert Murdoch.
The company was once valued at $ 9 billion, and Theranos became one of the richest women in the world before being charged by a federal jury in 2018 on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. .
The podcast’s host Rebecca Jarvis will deliver executive production, and podcast producers Victoria Thompson and Taylor Dunn will also serve as EPs.
Several Elizabeth Holmes projects were announced after her indictment, including ‘Bad Blood’, based on the book of the same name, starring Adam McKay who directed a feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence.
In addition to her ongoing concert “Saturday Night Live,” McKinnon will play tiger reserve owner Carole Baskin in “Joe Exotic,” a limited series about the infamous tiger king, which appears on NBC, Peacock and USA Network.
The deadline first reported McKinnon’s exit from the project.