Hulu has given a pilot order to Olga Dies Dreaming, a one-hour drama based on the forthcoming novel by Xochitl Gonzalez, from Gonzalez, Emmy-nominated and Sundance-winning filmmaker Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and 20th Television.Written by Gonzalez and directed by Gomez-Rejon, Olga Dies Dreaming is the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with the absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City’s elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.Gonzalez and Gomez-Rejon will executive produce.
20th Television is the studio.Gomez-Rejon partnered with Gonzalez after reading her novel in manuscript form. Together, they developed the series
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