Dan Fogelman is getting ready for an additional main This Is Us reunion, this time with Mandy Moore as she’s set to star alongside Christopher Meloni and William H. Macy within the creator’s upcoming Hulu drama set on the planet of the NFL.
The untitled soccer drama will see Fogelman reteam with former Pearson household matriarch, Moore, as she trades in Rebecca’s old-age make-up for the position of Lauren, who’s the daughter of Macy’s Hank Durkin, who owns the NFL crew on the middle of the present. Moore’s Lauren is described because the “inheritor obvious” by Deadline, which shared information of her casting. In the meantime, Meloni is about to star because the crew’s head coach, Danny Roarke.
As talked about above, this may mark Fogelman’s newest reunion along with his This Is Us forged, as he presently works alongside Sterling Ok. Brown on Hulu’s Paradise (however gained’t be starring on this sequence). Fogelman can be an govt producer on the streamer’s hit comedy Solely Murders within the Constructing.
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And this yet-to-be-titled soccer drama isn’t Fogelman’s first foray into the sports activities world, after he beforehand helmed the previous Fox sequence Pitch, which instructed the story of Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury), the primary feminine participant within the MLB. Together with Bunbury, the sequence starred a plethora of expertise, together with Mark-Paul Gosselaar. Pitch was canceled after one season in 2016, debuting the identical fall as NBC‘s This Is Us.
As followers of This Is Us will recall, the sequence wrapped its six-season run in 2022, bidding the Pearson household adieu, making approach for Fogelman’s latest tales. The inventive serves as author and govt producer on the soccer sequence, which hails from twentieth Tv and Skydance Sports activities. Jess Rosenthal, Kevin Falls, David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, and Jason T. Reed are additionally serving as govt producers on the challenge. Along with This Is Us, Fogelman and Moore collaborated on Disney’s Tangled.
Keep tuned for extra on the sequence, particularly to see if every other This Is Us alums be part of the combination because the NFL drama takes form at Hulu, and tell us what you consider Fogelman’s reunion with Moore within the feedback part under.