Margot Robbie producing Maid – Image: Getty Pictures
Maid is an upcoming Netflix “dramedy” coming to our screens in 2021. Maid will adapt Stephanie Land’s best-selling memoir Maid: Onerous Work, Low Pay, and a Mom’s Will to Survive.
The brand new collection is created by John Wells (who’s engaged on a first look output deal with Warner Brothers TV) and Molly Smith Metzler who each labored on Showtime’s Shameless. They’ll be working together with Margot Robbie and her manufacturing firm LuckyChap Leisure, Molly Metzler will function author, producer, and showrunner for the restricted collection, whereas John Wells will function the director.
The collection was first announced by Netflix again in November 2019.
Apart from Showtime’s Shameless, Metzler’s writing credit embrace Netflix’s hit collection Orange is the New Black and Hulu’s Casuals. John Wells has labored on such Emmy-nominated collection as The West Wing, ER, Mildred Pierce in addition to Shameless, Animal Kingdom and the Oscar-nominated movie August: Osage County.
Maid producers Molly Smith Metzler, John Wells and Margot Robbie
Wells commented on the brand new mission in a current press launch:
“We’re delighted to have the ability to accomplice with LuckyChap, Warner Bros, and the terribly proficient Molly Metzler to inform this shifting story.”
What’s the plot of Maid?
The plot of Netflix’s Maid relies on the real-life story of writer Stephanie Land, chronicled in her best-selling guide known as Maid: Onerous Work, Low Pay, and a Mom’s Will to Survive. In her late twenties Land had her first baby, turned a single mom and began working at a maid service to try to make ends meet. The following a number of years she spend under the poverty line and relied on a number of welfare applications to assist her household. All of these issues made worse by the truth that after a automobile accident when she was 16, Land had suffered from PTSD. Land’s struggles led her to start out writing about problems with poverty and public coverage.
Government producer John Wells supplied his feedback about engaged on Maid in a press release:
“Stephanie tells the searing and remarkably human story of a younger girl battling to discover a safe future for herself and her toddler daughter, Mia, within the face of overwhelming odds and governmental help applications of inconceivable complexity.”
Channing Dungey, vice chairman of authentic collection at Netflix, commented on the significance and relevance of this story:
“Maid is a poignant portrait that chronicles Stephanie Land’s strife and victories, and has the ability to attach with our members around the globe as they establish together with her struggles and root for her success.”
Who’s forged in Maid?
Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson and Anika Noni Rose
In September 2020 it was introduced that The Leftovers and As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood star Margaret Qualley would be the collection lead for Maid. Qualley will play Alex, a single mom who turns to housekeeping to try to make ends meet as she battles towards poverty, homelessness, and forms.
Together with Margaret Qualley, the Maid forged will function Nick Robinson (Jurassic World) and Anika Noni Rose (The Princess and the Frog, The Good Spouse).
What number of episodes will Maid have?
Netflix’s Maid is a 10-part restricted collection with every episode anticipated to run an hour.
What’s the manufacturing standing on Maid?
Manufacturing for Maid has already began on September 24 in Vancouver, Canada and is at the moment scheduled to wrap in March 2021.
What’s the discharge date of Maid?
Primarily based on the truth that manufacturing will wrap in March 2021, adopted by an approximate six-month post-production interval, we must be anticipating Maid to be launched on Netflix by the top of 2021.
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