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   Thankfully this pointlessly gender-swapped series is no longer going to   
   be made.   
      
      
       'Holes' TV Series Not Moving Forward at Disney+   
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       Disney+ is not moving forward with its TV adaptation of the   
       Louis Sachar novel "Holes" - which was the basis of Disney's   
       2003 film of the same name - after ordering a pilot at the   
       beginning of this year.   
      
       Sachar's novel was published in 1998 and won a National Book   
       Award and a Newbery Medal. The film, directed by Andrew Davis,   
       starred Shia LaBeouf as Stanley Yelnats, a teenager sent to a   
       juvenile detention camp called Camp Green Lake for a crime he   
       did not commit. There, while being forced to spend every day   
       digging holes in the desert, he discovers a shocking   
       connection between the land and his family. The cast also   
       included Sigourney Weaver, Khleo Thomas, Jon Voight, Tim Blake   
       Nelson, Patricia Arquette, Dule Hill and Eartha Kitt. Both the   
       book and the movie were critical and commercial successes.   
      
       The new Disney+ pilot was gender bent, following a teenage   
       girl at a detention camp instead of a boy. Shay Rudolph was set   
       to play Hayley, the lead role, with Greg Kinnear as the warden.   
       The cast also included Aidy Bryant as camp counselor Sissy,   
       Noah Cottrell as kitchen employee Kitch and Flor Delis Alicea,   
       Anire Kim Amoda, Iesha Daniels, Sophie Dieterlen, Alexandra   
       Doke and Maeve Press as Hayley's fellow campers at Camp Yucca.   
      
       The "Holes" pilot had Alina Mankin attached as writer with Liz   
       Phang as showrunner and Jac Schaeffer as director. Executive   
       producers included Mankin, Phang, Drew Goddard via Goddard   
       Textiles, Sarah Esberg and Mike Medavoy via Shamrock, which   
       holds the rights. Goddard Textiles' Andrea Massaro was a   
       co-executive producer. The pilot was produced by Walden Media,   
       which produced the film, and 20th Television was the studio.   
      
      
      
      
      
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