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02.07.2020 / 22:09

Hulu's hilarious new series The Great was great enough to get a second season pickup! Hulu has announced that it has officially renewed the series for Season 2.From the mind of The Favourite's Tony McNamara, The Great is a historical satire of the famous Russian coup led by Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning). Season 1 told the story of her early days as the Empress of Russia and the wife of Emperor Peter III (Nicholas Hoult).

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With 'The Great,' Elle Fanning Is Ready to Take the Throne (Exclusive)

Elle Fanning's portrayal of Catherine II, the longest-reigning Empress of Russia, on .The actress steps strikingly into the Golden Era of the empire's 18th century Enlightenment on the lauded Hulu series, though it takes her character a moment to see past the glitz and glamour.

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How Working Together on ‘The Favourite’ Set the Tone for Nicholas Hoult and Tony McNamara on ‘The Great’

Will Thorne Staff WriterDuring several weeks of rehearsal in the build-up to shooting “The Favourite,” the core cast members, including Nicholas Hoult, would run scenes, play acting games and dance, while director Yorgos Lanthimos and writer Tony McNamara looked on. After only two days of frolicking around, McNamara says he earmarked Hoult to play a lead role in his next big period project, Hulu’s darkly comic “The Great.”“I rang the other producer on the show and I said, ‘I think I’ve found our Peter,’” McNamara says.

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‘The Great’s Tony McNamara Talks Reappraising Russia’s Catherine; “She Took Down The Man”, Elle Fanning Says – Contenders TV

Joe Utichi Editor, AwardsLineWhile promoting his Oscar-nominated work on 2018’s The Favourite, writer Tony McNamara expressed a dissatisfaction with period drama. Industry insiders were surprised, then, when his follow-up project turned out to be Hulu’s The Great, a darkly comic satire charting the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest-reigning female ruler in Russian history.Starring Elle Fanning as Catherine and Nicholas Hoult as her husband Peter, the show is a surprisingly factual deep dive into the life of a woman more widely known for scandalous, and likely untrue, stories about her unseemly love of horses.

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‘The Great’: Creator Tony McNamara On Mixing Funny With Formality – Crew Call Podcast

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorOn the first Crew Call podcast of the Emmy season we speak with Oscar nominated The Favorite screenwriter Tony McNamara about his new Hulu/Media Rights Capital series The Great which follows Elle Fanning as 18th Century Empress of Russia Catherine the Great as she carefully plots a coup d’etat to take down her boorish husband, Peter III (Nicholas Hoult), in a mission to enlighten the country with the mores that are liberating her European homeland. Similar to what he did with The Favorite, McNamara has reinvigorated period drama with a riveting sense of absurdist wit and edginess.

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‘Hawkline Monster’: Yorgos Lanthimos Reteaming With ‘Favourite’ Writer Tony McNamara For New Film

After making a detour over at Hulu, with the fun new satire, “The Great,” writer Tony McNamara is ready to reteam with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on another new project, an upcoming film titled “The Hawkline Monster.” READ MORE: Yorgos Lanthimos In Negotiations To Direct A New Feature Film, ‘The Hawkline Monster’ According to THR, McNamara has signed on to adapt the novel, “The Hawkline Monster,” for a new film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

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Elle Fanning Talks 'The Great,' 'Grease' and Working With Sister Dakota Fanning

Elle Fanning is allergic the phrase "strong female characters." That's what the star of Hulu's new MRC-produced series The Great explained on the latest episode of IMDb's newly launched podcast Movies That Changed My Life. "What does that mean?" Fanning asked, in reference to her character Catherine, as in Cathering the Great, to host Ian de Borja, best known for his work on The IMDb Show.She wanted to show all sides to the historical figure, who gets a reimagining in the Tony McNamara-created series in which she stars opposite Nicholas Hoult.

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Watch: How the ‘The Great’ Design Team Set the Scene for the Perfect Coup

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The Great Review: Hulu's Sharp Satire Doesn't Always Tell the Truth, but Nails It Where It Counts

Hulu's new series The Great reminds viewers at the top of every episode that it is "an occasionally true story," and because the show is not concerned with accuracy and takes liberties with its historical subject matter, the 10-episode satire from The Favourite's Tony McNamara is able to avoid the stuffiness that permeates traditional period pieces to become a cheeky comedy about one ambitious woman's attempt to rise to power in a world dominated by insufferable idiots and ineffective male

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