Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to an adaptation of Beth Macy’s “Dopesick,” with Michael Keaton set to star, the streamer announced Tuesday.
Published in 2018, Macy’s “Dopesick” explores the U.S. opioid crisis by interlacing stories of young addicts and struggling communities with stories of dealers, doctors and pharmaceutical companies responsible for the drug epidemic.
Hulu’s adaptation, written by “Empire’s” Danny Strong,” is described as “an ambitious, harrowing, and compelling look into the epicenter of America’s struggle with Opioid addiction, tak[ing] viewers from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of ‘one percenter’ Big Pharma Manhattan.”