Amanda Seyfried to play Elizabeth Holmes, replacing Kate McKinnon in Hulu's The Dropout

Deadline

The Veronica Mars and Big Love alum, who is nominated for best actress at this year's Oscars for Mank, will take over the role McKinnon exited in February. Seyfried will play Holmes, the founder of scam blood-testing startup Theranos in the limited series based on based on ABC News' podcast of the same name that was announced two years ago. Seyfried will also serve as a producer on the project, which is expected to start filming this summer. "Elizabeth Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation," according to Deadline. "Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye?"