Yvonne Strahovski to Star in Peacock’s Stinger Adaptation From James Wan

Keisha Hatchett
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Yvonne Strahovski’s next role finds her tackling more social unrest — but with a twist.

The Handmaid’s Tale star will lead Peacock’s adaptation of Robert McCammon’s 1988 novel Stinger, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Executive-produced by James Wan, the horror-thriller, titled Teacup, will shift the story’s setting from Texas to rural Georgia as a group of people face a mysterious threat and must unite to survive.

The original story took place over a 24-hour period in a town rocked by racial tension, gang violence and a collapsing economy. Those issues were exacerbated by an unidentified spacecraft cash-landing outside of town, followed by a second craft carrying an alien known as Stinger, who is “kind of an interstellar hunter on a mission he intends to complete,” per the book’s synopsis. He brought with him an array of technical marvels and an infinite capacity for destruction that threatened the town, its inhabitants and the world at large.

Yellowstone’s Ian McCulloch will pen the script for Teacup, which is still in the developmental stage, and executive-produce alongside Wan and E.L. Katz (The Haunting of Bly Manor), who has been tapped to direct the pilot.

Chaske Spencer (Echo) also has joined the cast, alongside Strahovski and Scott Speedman.

Strahovski is due to start filming The Handmaid’s Tale’s sixth and final season this summer; those episodes are slated to debut on Hulu in 2025. The show’s farewell run was originally set for 2024 but was delayed by the writers’ and actors’ strikes of 2023.

Additional TV credits for the actress include Dexter, Chuck, The Astronaut Wives Club and the 24 limited series offshoot 24: Live Another Day.

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