UPDATE 9/4/19: We just got word that Hulu has acquired the rights for The Testament ! MGM and Hulu are discussing how the story of the new book can become an extension to The Handmaid’s Tale with the current showrunner, Bruce Miller. #TheTestaments is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene and is narrated by three female characters. The Testaments (plural) divides our attention and sympathies. We look from under Offred’s headdress, we stare at her bedroom ceiling. Yes indeed to those who asked: I’m writing a sequel to The #HandmaidsTale. The Handmaid’s Tale (singular) was one woman’s telling.

Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.” Here is what Margaret Atwood had to say about the book: “Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. The claustrophobic first-person narration of Offred is widened out to incorporate the stories of three. Here is the Front Cover for #thetestaments … The Back Cover will follow shortly… /Mj8JQuRgBO The action of The Testaments takes place 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. Pair this announcement with the fact that the Hulu original series featuring Elisabeth Moss and a whole crew of other wonderful actors is about to go off-book in Season 3 (not to mention the perilous political times in which we live)-and you know this is all people will be talking about in 2019!Ĭheck out the cover for The Testaments here! Freedom? Continued torture? Death? We don’t know! Queue the internet to blow up.Įntitled The Testaments, the sequel will be narrated by three female characters and will be set 15 years after the last scene in The Handmaid’s Tale-after the van door slams on Offred and she is driven off to an uncertain future. The book is a follow-up to her 1985 novel and hops forward in time by about 15 years after the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, when Offred boarded a van and was driven to an unknown fate. Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.

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