Minnie Driver (Cinderella), Jeffery Donovan (Fargo) and 9-1-1: Lone Star alumna Natacha Karam have been tapped as leads within the first installment of The Devoted, Fox‘s six-episode Biblical restricted collection from Carol Mendelsohn, Rene Echevarria and Fox Leisure Studios.
Driver will play Sarah, Donovan will painting Abraham and Karam is about as Hagar in Half 1, which will probably be directed and govt produced by Danny Cannon. The Devoted will premiere Sunday, March 22 and air in three, two-hour installments main into the finale on Easter Sunday, April 5.
The occasion collection relies on The Previous Testomony’s Ebook of Genesis and will probably be instructed via the eyes of 5 of The Bible’s most iconic girls: Sarah and her former slave Hagar, Sarah’s great-niece Rebekah, and Rebekah’s nieces, sisters Leah and Rachel.
The primary installment focuses on Sarah & Hagar.
In it, Sarah (Driver) feels incomplete with out the kid that has been promised to her and her husband, Abraham (Donovan), by God. After braving isolation, famine, the ire of Pharaoh, and a number of other extra years of barrenness, she resorts to her personal plan to deliver a baby into the world involving her maidservant Hagar (Karam) and Abraham. Nevertheless, jealousy quickly units in after Hagar provides start to Ishmael (from whose lineage the Islamic faith traces its roots). Then a miracle occurs… And private freedoms are at odds with long-held grievances and shattered love.
Wholly owned by FOX Leisure, The Devoted comes from Fox Leisure Studios and is distributed worldwide by Fox Leisure International. Underneath her first-look broadcast direct take care of Fox, Mendelsohn serves as govt producer together with Julie Weitz and Echevarria, who wrote the pilot and also will function showrunner. The collection begins manufacturing this summer season in Rome and Matera, Italy.
Driver will juggle the shoot together with her recurring position on the upcoming fifth season of Netflix’s Emily In Paris, which is filmed in France and Italy. She was final seen as Elizabeth I in season 2 of Starz’s The Serpent Queen.
Donovan is thought for starring as Michael Westen in Burn Discover and his position in Season 2 of Fargo. He lately was a collection common on Regulation & Order and will subsequent be seen in Wardriver with Dane Dehaan for Star Thrower.
Karam was a collection common on Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star for its five-season run. She additionally appeared in Previous Guard, NBC’s The Courageous and Shotime’s Homeland.
Cannon lately labored on the Epix collection Pennyworth and directed the pilot for the CW’s Gotham Knights.
