Greg Kinnear and nine more actors have joined the cast of Disney+’s Holes series.
Holes is a young adult novel that was written by Louis Sachar and published in 1998. It was previously turned into a movie directed by Andrew Davis that was released by Walt Disney Pictures in April 2003. It starred Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, and Tim Blake Nelson.
Disney is now rebooting Holes into a television show that comes from showrunner Liz Phang and writer Alina Mankin.
Who has joined the cast of the Disney+ Holes show?
In addition to Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) as the Warden, the cast of Holes includes Aidy Bryant (Shill, Saturday Night Live) as Sissy, Shay Rudolph (Lethal Weapon) as Hayley, Flor Delis Alicea as Queenie, Anire Kim Amoda (The Penguin) as Thumbelina, Noah Cottrell (The Spiderwick Chronicles) as Kitch, Iesha Daniels as Mars, Sophie Dieterlen as Sticky, Alexandra Doke (City on Fire) as Eyeball, and Maeve Press (Theresa Is a Mother) as Shrimp.
“Holes follows Hayley (Rudolph), a teenage girl sent to a detention camp where the ruthless Warden (Kinnear) forces the campers to dig holes for a mysterious purpose,” the synopsis for the series reads, via Deadline.
This slightly differs from Sachar’s book, as that story featured a male protagonist, Stanley Yelnats, who was sent to a juvenile detention camp for boys in Texas that was run by a female warden.
Phang and Mankin both serve as executive producers on the show alongside Drew Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles and Jac Schaeffer. Schaeffer will direct the pilot episode, while Andrea Massaro serves as co-executive producer. Walden Media, which produced the 2003 Holes movie, will also executive produce the pilot, as will Mike Medavoy.
A Disney+ premiere date for the Holes television show has not yet been announced.
