Hulu Orders Neanderthal Drama Pilot From 'Without a Trace' Creator
Hank Steinberg and 'Black Hawk Down's' Ken Nolan will oversee 'Dawn,' from MGM TV.
Hulu is ready to turn its lens on prehistoric times.
The streaming service has handed out a pilot order to Dawn, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The project, from Without a Trace creator Hank Steinberg and Black Hawk Down's Ken Nolan, is described as an epic drama set in prehistoric times. It follows a tribe of Neanderthals as they struggle to survive and hold on to their own way of life after coming into contact with a family of Homo Sapiens. At the intersection of evolution and genocide, Dawn asks the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human?
A co-production between MGM and Hulu, Steinberg and Nolan created the drama and will executive produce. Robert Stromberg (Maleficent, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland) will direct the pilot. Production is scheduled to begin Monday in Ireland. The potential series will be made up of an international cast, withFola Evans Akingbola, Temuera Morrison, Carl Shaaban and Matthew Hopkinsonin final negotiations to star.
Looks like they’re going to cast Black people (and Boba Fett, a Maori) as the Neanderthals, when Africans are the only race that does not carry Neanderthal DNA.
Can’t find a pic for Matthew Hopkinson (too many hits) but I’m guessing he’ll be the evil White Homo Sapien who oppresses them…
Connor Evans
>The potential series will be made up of an international cast, with Fola Evans Akingbola
Dominic Stewart
> Temuera Morrison
Bentley Fisher
> Carl Shaaban
Zachary Phillips
>Steinberg
Jonathan Peterson
Black africans have Neanderthal DNA due to a Stone Age back-migration
It's common knowledge
Levi Smith
That doesn't change the fact that Neanderthals were whiter than a Norwegian eating Wonder Bread in the Artic.
Charles Parker
Forgot to mention, that isn't common knowledge at all. You and I know this, but most people on this board are ignorant on that.
Nathan James
These are probably the Homo sapiens, as neanderthals were light skinned, light haired and blue or green eyed (mostly).
Jayden Wilson
Weak bait is weak
Jackson Flores
Well, at least the northern ones were. The ones more to the south had darker features.
Sebastian Rodriguez
>neanderthals >apefaces
When will Hollywood fucking get it right? They were more like IRL Tolkein dwarfs.
Andrew Lopez
Not quite but close.
Thomas Sullivan
We WUZ Neanderthal n shit
Andrew Taylor
>white people genocided neanderthals to get europe >europe doesn't belong to europeans in the same way america belonds to native americans or africa belongs to africans well played Steinberg
Thomas Brown
>dwarfs
they weren't really that much shorter than humans if at all
Luke Long
When it'll come out I'll ask certain Australian Neanderthal if it's accurate.
Easton Richardson
She's gonna be Homo Sapiens. That look has nothing to do with Neanderthals.
Adrian Lopez
He was talking about their faces.
Evan Adams
They weren't white when they came to Europe user.
Ian White
>casting black people as Neanderthals
Well, that's weird.
Charles Green
Fucking humans get OUT!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Luke Walker
no they weren't. that's just eurocentric pseudo-science. you see what you want to see.
Ayden Gonzalez
>Soft >Tissue >Reconstruction
Juan Nelson
>someone thought this was real
Brandon Wright
>Looks like >I'm guessing looks like confirmation bias to me
