EXCLUSIVE: The Handmaid’s Tale creator/executive producer Bruce Miller and writers-producers John Herrera and Nina Fiore are bringing another female-driven novel to television.
TNT has put in development Heresy, a western drama inspired by Melissa Lenhardt’s book of the same name, from The Handmaid’s Tale trio and MGM/UA Television, where Miller and his White Oak Pictures are under a deal.Written by Herrera and Fiore, Heresy is set in the Wild West.
In it, women have few choices: marriage, whoring, or grabbing a gun. For two unlikely allies, the choice is simple. Heresy is described as a female-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the West like we’ve never seen before.
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