The continuation of the story of the maid also arrives at Hulu – / Movie

Last year, award-winning author Margaret Atwood announced that she was writing a sequel to her acclaimed novel The servant's tale. This is called Willsand also takes place in the oppressive religious community of Gilead, but from the angle of several characters instead of being the head of the protagonist of the first book, June (aka Offred). Wills arrives in the libraries next week, and many reports today confirm that Hulu and MGM, the companies behind the award-winning TV show at Emmy The servant's tale, also develop the sequel for Hulu – although it is still unclear whether this will be built into the existing series, or whether it will be a completely separate series.

Time first announced the news The servant's tale following today's broadcast, and io9 received the following statement from a Hulu spokesperson who inquired Wills could take:

MGM and Hulu are currently in discussion with Servant showrunner Bruce Miller on how the next novel can become an important extension of the immensely popular award-winning series The servant's tale.

The new book, which was to debut on September 10 but has already been distributed to a small number of buyers due to an error of the Amazon retailer, takes place fifteen years after the end of Atwood's original novel. This first book ends ambiguously. June is thrown to the back of a van, her fate hanging. (The first season of the Hulu series followed the book closely, until the end, but has since expanded the story in its own directions.)

Wills has three different narrators: a young woman raised in the oppressive society of Gilead; a Canadian teenager who learns that she was really born there; and Aunt Lydia, one of the bad guys from the first book who oversees the maids. Ann Dowd portrays Aunt Lydia on The servant's taleand if we still do not know if it will resume the role in any visual form whatsoever Wills ends up taking, she returns to make the character of the new audiobook appear alongside Bryce Dallas Howard and Mae Whitman like the other POV characters.

Personally, I would like to see The servant's tale Get into the action with Aunt Lydia and these new characters, because while the third season of the series sometimes featured bright dots of light, it gave the impression of walking in the water. Atwood herself realized that the pace of the series had slowed considerably, telling Time: "They can not stay Offred at Gilead for many more seasons, otherwise a number of wheels will spin. They have to move it forward – and I've given them a lot of ways to make that happen. "

At this point, I would prefer to take a break in the story of Offred (no shadow towards Elisabeth Moss, who did an incredible job in the lead role) and would like to see some of the pending issues of this plot responding to from other characters, but we will have to wait and see how all this is played out.

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