{"id":345979,"date":"2025-12-13T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345979\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:26:09","slug":"gender-swapped-reboot-pilot-not-going-forward-at-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345979\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender-Swapped Reboot Pilot Not Going Forward At Disney+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney-2\" data-tag=\"disney-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+<\/a> is not proceeding with its pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/holes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_holes\" data-tag=\"holes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holes<\/a>, a reimagining of Louis Sachar\u2019s 1998 novel and the 2003 Disney movie adaptation with a female lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShay Rudolph (The Baby-Sitters Club) led the cast of the pilot, which also included Greg Kinnear and Aidy Bryant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExpectations were high for the project, from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney-branded-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney-branded-entertainment\" data-tag=\"disney-branded-entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Branded Entertainment<\/a>, with a writers room commissioned and one of the tax credits awarded to Disney in August earmarked for the potential series. (The credits are not title-specific and can be reassigned.) But also high was the bar for the reboot, and a decision was ultimately made not to go forward with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe new Holes was to follow Hayley (Rudolph), a teenage girl sent to a detention camp where the ruthless Warden (Kinnear) forces the campers to dig holes for a mysterious purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFlor Delis Alicea, Anire Kim Amoda, Noah Cottrell, Iesha Daniels, Sophie Dieterlen, Alexandra Doke and Maeve Press also starred in the pilot, written by Alina Mankin, with Liz Phang set as showrunner,<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPhang and Mankin executive produced with Drew Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles; the movie\u2019s producer Mike Medavoy; Walden Media, which was behind the 2003 feature; as well as rights holder Shamrock. 20th Television was the studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Disney+, Disney Branded Television and 20th Television are behind the popular fantasy-adventure series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which just debuted its second season and has already been renewed for a third. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEarlier this fall, Disney Branded Television\u00a0gave a pilot green light to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/eerie-prep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eerie Prep<\/a>, based on the\u00a0Eerie Elementary\u00a0children\u2019s books, for Disney+ and Disney Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney+ is not proceeding with its pilot Holes, a reimagining of Louis Sachar\u2019s 1998 novel and the 2003&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[172858,3716,88,15299,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-345979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-disney-branded-entertainment","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-holes","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}