Lizzy Caplan of ‘Mean Girls’ fame to star in ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ 

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Lizzy Caplan, identified for movies like “Mean Girls” and sequence “Masters of Sex”, will play the feminine lead in “Fleishman Is in Trouble” arrange at FX on Hulu.

The restricted sequence relies on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s New York Times bestselling debut novel, sources informed Variety.

It follows the story of just lately separated fortysomething Toby Fleishman, who dives into the courageous new world of app-based courting with the type of success he by no means had courting in his youth, earlier than he bought married on the tail finish of medical faculty.

But simply at the beginning of his first summer season of sexual freedom, his ex-wife disappears, leaving him with the youngsters and no trace of the place she is or whether or not she plans to return.

Caplan is alleged to be taking part in Libby, the narrator of the sequence.

FX is but to verify the casting.

Brodesser-Akner will function the author of the nine-episode sequence and can government produce it together with Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly and Susannah Grant.

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the director duo behind “Little Miss Sunshine”, will direct a number of episodes of the present.

Due to scheduling conflicts with “Fleishman Is in Trouble”, Caplan will not be becoming a member of the newly introduced “Party Down” revival.

Starz has given the 2009 comedy sequence a brand new six-episode order.

Other solid members Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Jane Lynch, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen, and Megan Mullally are all slated to reprise their roles within the cult basic, which follows a bunch of dreamers engaged on a Los Angeles catering group.

Caplan was just lately tapped for the feminine lead, Alex, in “Fatal Attraction”, the sequence reimagining of the basic Nineteen Eighties psychosexual thriller from Paramount Plus.