On Friday, Hulu ordered Future Man to series, a half-hour comedy starring Hutcherson and executive produced by Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
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Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) will play the heroic, alien-befriending janitor. When Josh beats the final level of Cybergeddon, he’s visited by characters from the video game who claim it’s a training manual and he’s been selected to travel back in time and help them save the world.
Rogan and Goldberg will serve as executive producers along with Matt Tolmach and James Weaver and will debut on Hulu in 2017. Shaffir and Hunter wrote the pilot. Shaffir and Hunter also now executive produce the Sony Pictures Television/AMC series “Preacher”, produced by Rogen and Goldberg.
The series is the latest piece of original content Hulu is developing, as the service battles competitors such as Netflix and Amazon Prime in securing their own catalogs of exclusive programs.
The cast of “Future Man” also includes Ed Begley Jr.
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Actor Josh Hutcherson stars as Josh Futterman, an uninspired janitor/dejected gamer who ends up being recruited by “mysterious visitors” to become the unlikely hope to save humanity. (“Mascots”, “St. Elsewhere”), Eliza Coupe (“Happy Endings”), Glenne Headly (“The Night Of”) and Derek Wilson (“Preacher”).
