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Hannah Fidell, creator of Kate Mara drama A Teacher, is staying in business with FX. The writer, director and producer has struck a first-look deal with FX Productions. It comes after her FX on Hulu miniseries, which also starred Nick Robinson, launched in November. The series is based on her indie drama, which was…

It takes audacity for an actress to play a high school teacher who grooms her student, but it's someone such as Kate Mara who embraces the challenge to meticulously play such knotty femmes with no sweat results. Mara portrays such a protagonist – or antagonist depending on how you view it, which only underscores her…

Writer-director Hannah Fidell had already made the acclaimed indie film A Teacher in 2013, but when the opportunity arose to expand the story as a television series and really bring out all its complexities, she jumped at the chance. As she said during the FX series’ panel at Deadline's Contenders Television…

Kate Mara has had a busy career so far on the stage and in TV and movies. Her big dream was, and still is, is to hit the bright lights of Broadway, but achieving the kind of success most actors dream of have made that Broadway debut a dream delayed as she explains in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The…

Kate Mara-fronted drama A Teacher, which is based on Hannah Fidell's feature film, has become FX on Hulu's most-watched original – surpassing Mrs. America and Devs. FX revealed that the series, which also stars Nick Robinson, also attracted more new subscribers to the digital service than the period drama and the…

Saturday Night Live cast members Ego Nwodim, Andrew Dismukes and host Kristen Wiig took shots at FX’s teacher-student drama A Teacher with a parody season two trailer. In the SNL teaser, Dismukes takes on Nick Robinson’s Eric Walker, who has an illicit affair with his high school teacher (Kate Mara). Instead of…

FX revealed the trailer, key image and premiere date for its Hulu drama A Teacher. The 10-episode limited series drama, based on Hannah Fidell’s 2013 film, stars Nick Robinson and Kate Mara. The teaser gives an inside look at the relationship a high school teacher Claire (Mara) shares with her student Eric (Robinson)…

EXCLUSIVE: FX is rounding out the cast for A Teacher. Manhattan alum Ashley Zukerman, Marielle Scott (Lady Bird), Shane Harper (Awkward) and Adam David Thompson (Godless) are set as series regulars, and Rya Kihlstedt (Yellowstone), Camila Perez (Gotham), Cameron Moulène (Foursome) and Ciara Bravo (Wayne) will recur…

FX has given a formal green light to A Teacher, a 10-episode limited series based on Hannah Fidell's buzzy 2013 Sundance feature, starring and executive produced by Kate Mara. Additionally, Nick Robinson (Love, Simon, Everything, Everything) has been cast as a co-lead opposite Mara in the series, which has been in…

EXCLUSIVE: FX is developing A Teacher, a limited series based on Hannah Fidell’s buzzy Sundance feature, with Pose‘s Kate Mara attached to star and executive produce. Fidell, who wrote, directed and produced the 2013 film, will pen the adaptation, direct and executive produce the potential series. Timelier than ever…

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Fidell’s feature A Teacher, one of the buzzed about titles at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, is getting a series adaptation as a drama at HBO executive produced by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass and Michael Costigan. Also titled A Teacher, the project is being written/executive produced by Fidell and…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. Even as attention turns to the next slate of films on the horizon at the Toronto International Film Festival, the coming weekend’s theatrical debuts are beyond plentiful. Magnolia Pictures bows Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely, starring Rosemarie DeWitt who starred in Shelton’s…