Authenticity was top of mind for all involved in the making of the Apple TV+ limited series “Five Days at Memorial,” and to that end a CG-created depiction of the devastating Hurricane Katrina wouldn’t do.
“We want to put the audience in the shoes of these characters and help understand the situation that they were facing,” executive producer Carlton Cuse said in the latest installment of TheWrap’s “How I Did It,” which is sponsored by Apple TV+.
“From a production standpoint, one of the things that was really important was a high degree of authenticity, and this story would be nothing if it didn’t really feel real, if it didn’t respect the actual events we’re depicting, so we had to figure out how are we going to re-create New Orleans when 80 of the city was underwater, and that was not an easy task and there wasn’t an easy solution.
“We want to put the audience in the shoes of these characters and help understand the situation that they were facing,” executive producer Carlton Cuse said in the latest installment of TheWrap’s “How I Did It,” which is sponsored by Apple TV+.
“From a production standpoint, one of the things that was really important was a high degree of authenticity, and this story would be nothing if it didn’t really feel real, if it didn’t respect the actual events we’re depicting, so we had to figure out how are we going to re-create New Orleans when 80 of the city was underwater, and that was not an easy task and there wasn’t an easy solution.
- 12/19/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Apple TV +’s “Five Days at Memorial” is a difficult watch. Based on “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,” an acclaimed 2013 book by Sheri Fink, the limited series was created by John Ridley and Carlton Cuse. The eight-part drama revolves around Hurricane Katrina’s siege of New Orleans in 2005 which caused massive flooding when the levees broke. After the water finally receded, 45 bodies were found in Memorial Hospital. Did these patients die of natural causes or was homicide involved?
“Five Days at Memorial” examines what happens in those five days when then hospital becomes flooded. Without power, stifling heat, dwindling food and water and fetid unsanitary conditions, the hospital resembles a crumbling war zone. Vera Farmiga stars as Dr. Anna Pou, a dedicated oncologist who becomes the subject of the investigation surrounding those 45 patients. And Cherry Jones plays nursing director and rotating “incident commander” Susan Mulderick.
“Five Days at Memorial” examines what happens in those five days when then hospital becomes flooded. Without power, stifling heat, dwindling food and water and fetid unsanitary conditions, the hospital resembles a crumbling war zone. Vera Farmiga stars as Dr. Anna Pou, a dedicated oncologist who becomes the subject of the investigation surrounding those 45 patients. And Cherry Jones plays nursing director and rotating “incident commander” Susan Mulderick.
- 12/5/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Some of the best work in television has occurred in the limited series genre, and the 2022 contributions have been no exception, given how they commandeered the zeitgeist and outperformed the likes of the much-publicized House of the Dragon and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. We’re speaking, of course, of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Ryan Murphy’s 10-episode deep dive into the notorious serial killer. Aside from its clunky title, the Netflix series transfixed the true crime obsessed despite the surprisingly understated way it depicted the grisly murders.
Viewers were largely left to imagine what happened to Dahmer’s victims, a testament to the series’ chilling score and the extraordinary work of Evan Peters, Murphy’s longtime muse. Peters is a slam dunk for a nomination, if not for his co-star Niecy Nash as Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s next-door neighbor who heard the terrifying...
Viewers were largely left to imagine what happened to Dahmer’s victims, a testament to the series’ chilling score and the extraordinary work of Evan Peters, Murphy’s longtime muse. Peters is a slam dunk for a nomination, if not for his co-star Niecy Nash as Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s next-door neighbor who heard the terrifying...
- 11/29/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
The Apple TV+ limited series “Five Days at Memorial” focuses on the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, specifically the events that happened at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, where 45 bodies were discovered in the days following the natural disaster. But while the series is a fact-based retelling of the systemic failures that led to the 2005 tragedy at Memorial, it’s hard to watch “Five Days at Memorial” and not connect it with the government response to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
“Oh, I mean, it was totally related,” co-creator and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview as part of our “Meet the Experts” showrunners panel. Cuse and co-creator John Ridley started working on “Five Days at Memorial” in 2019 but picked up steam in the spring of 2020 as the country grappled with the deadly pandemic and its crushing strain on health care.
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“Oh, I mean, it was totally related,” co-creator and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview as part of our “Meet the Experts” showrunners panel. Cuse and co-creator John Ridley started working on “Five Days at Memorial” in 2019 but picked up steam in the spring of 2020 as the country grappled with the deadly pandemic and its crushing strain on health care.
SEEVera Farmiga and...
- 11/18/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
“It has been kind of impossible for me to walk away from,” reveals Julie Ann Emery about her standout role in the harrowing Apple TV+ limited series “Five Days at Memorial.” For our recent webchat she adds, “Maybe we’re not supposed to easily be able to walk away from it. I hope that it leaves a bit of a mark on our audience as well, because I’d like to see real change in our world come from it. We’re going to see natural disasters and collective crises, like the pandemic, happen more frequently and more ferociously. It’s not going to let up and we need to really decide who we want to be together as a society. How do we show up for each other in those moments? And ‘Five Days’ really points to a lot of failings on that front” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
- 11/3/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
“My only job here, what I was hired to do, was to portray her and put you in her shoes,” declares Oscar and Emmy nominee Vera Farmiga, who stars alongside Tony and Emmy winner Cherry Jones in the harrowing limited series “Five Days at Memorial” as healthcare professionals trapped in the cataclysmic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For our recent webchat Farmiga adds, “in order to play the depth of despair and disappointment, to grasp the abysmal and dire conditions in that hospital and portray how their mental reserves were absolutely zapped,” she says, “I’m portraying fight or flight.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Farmiga and Jones above.
“Five Days at Memorial” was developed, written and directed by John Ridley (“American Crime”) and Carlton Cuse (“Lost”), based on the 2013 non-fiction book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital” by journalist Sheri Fink. The eight-episode Apple...
“Five Days at Memorial” was developed, written and directed by John Ridley (“American Crime”) and Carlton Cuse (“Lost”), based on the 2013 non-fiction book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital” by journalist Sheri Fink. The eight-episode Apple...
- 11/2/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Five Days at Memorial, the grim tale about the disastrous events that took place at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, finished its eight-episode run today on Apple TV+. Here, executive producer Carlton Cuse, who adapted the series together with John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) from the nonfiction book by Sheri Fink, explains what it was like to chronicle the story of healthcare professionals like Dr. Anna Pou (Vera Farmiga) and incident commander Susan Mulderick (Cherry Jones), who faced overwhelming odds to save patients at Memorial Medical Center.
Deadline: It’s extraordinary how long this has been in the works, obviously starting with Scott Rudin acquiring the rights back in 2013. Why do you think it took so long?
Carlton Cuse: I believe it’s an incredibly compelling story but obviously not the easiest story to watch. I think that scared people away, and...
Deadline: It’s extraordinary how long this has been in the works, obviously starting with Scott Rudin acquiring the rights back in 2013. Why do you think it took so long?
Carlton Cuse: I believe it’s an incredibly compelling story but obviously not the easiest story to watch. I think that scared people away, and...
- 9/16/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Now that you've seen Five Days at Memorial Season 1 Episode 5, you know the extent of the horror that befell patients, visitors, and staff in the days after Katrina.
It's also the right time to get insight into the central players, Dr. Anna Pou, Susan Mulderick, and Dr. Horace Baltz.
Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, and Robert Pine share their thoughts on doing the characters justice and helping the audience connect with the real people they portrayed.
First up, we had a brief conversation with Vera and Cherry together, and they spoke about the responsibility they felt to get it right.
Starting with you, Vera, you're playing a cherished doctor who was forced to make impossible decisions during an absolute unthinkable situation. How did you feel to walk in her shoes, if only to tell that story?
Vera: I felt an enormous responsibility to get it right because I think that the...
It's also the right time to get insight into the central players, Dr. Anna Pou, Susan Mulderick, and Dr. Horace Baltz.
Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, and Robert Pine share their thoughts on doing the characters justice and helping the audience connect with the real people they portrayed.
First up, we had a brief conversation with Vera and Cherry together, and they spoke about the responsibility they felt to get it right.
Starting with you, Vera, you're playing a cherished doctor who was forced to make impossible decisions during an absolute unthinkable situation. How did you feel to walk in her shoes, if only to tell that story?
Vera: I felt an enormous responsibility to get it right because I think that the...
- 8/26/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
As a disabled person for whom going to the hospital is already a terrifying experience, “Five Days at Memorial” triggered me. It took several weeks to get over watching all eight episodes of the Apple TV+ limited series, an adaptation of Sheri Fink’s nonfiction investigation “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.” The book and the TV show focus on the doctors and patients stranded at Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina. When the floodwaters receded in 2005, 45 dead bodies were discovered in the hospital’s basement, with allegations that at least two patients were euthanized.
“Five Days” is based on a book about doctors’ experiences, but those experiences hinge on questions surrounding euthanasia and the disabled. Presenting disabled people in emergencies as nameless characters stuck in some kind of moral gray area tells us that if you’re disabled, “first do no harm” does not apply.
“Five Days” is based on a book about doctors’ experiences, but those experiences hinge on questions surrounding euthanasia and the disabled. Presenting disabled people in emergencies as nameless characters stuck in some kind of moral gray area tells us that if you’re disabled, “first do no harm” does not apply.
- 8/26/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Toward the end of “Five Days at Memorial,” a character offers their sympathy by saying “I can imagine what you went through.” It’s an effort to make a human connection, even when discussing the details of an unthinkable set of circumstances. The other person’s response is simple: “Oh no, you cannot imagine. You have no idea.” It’s an indicative exchange for this Apple TV+ series, not just because it lays plain the emotions involved, 17 years later. It’s that the show is trying to embody both sides of the conversation at once.
Over eight episodes, “Five Days at Memorial” does its utmost to faithfully recreate the conditions of a hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, effectively cordoned off from a rescue effort struggling to help any neighbors, too. Yet, in those moments of merely recreating the look and the feel of new Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center...
Over eight episodes, “Five Days at Memorial” does its utmost to faithfully recreate the conditions of a hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, effectively cordoned off from a rescue effort struggling to help any neighbors, too. Yet, in those moments of merely recreating the look and the feel of new Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center...
- 8/12/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina so precisely crystallized a set of seemingly unfixable problems with this country that it’s surprising TV, in an era of re-examining recent history, is only now getting around to depicting it in fictionalized form. It’s not for lack of trying: Ryan Murphy had previously proposed multiple takes on the story, one with Annette Bening starring as Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and then one with Sarah Paulson starring as Dr. Anna Pou. These never came together, leaving a lane open for Pou’s story, as told in Sheri Fink’s book “Five Days at Memorial,” to get adapted for Apple TV+.
And while this series, produced by Carlton Cuse and John Ridley, is accomplished in many ways, viewers may well pine for what might have been; the willing-to-be-crass bigness of Murphy’s approach and his eagerness to grasp at Big Themes suits the astonishing...
And while this series, produced by Carlton Cuse and John Ridley, is accomplished in many ways, viewers may well pine for what might have been; the willing-to-be-crass bigness of Murphy’s approach and his eagerness to grasp at Big Themes suits the astonishing...
- 8/11/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
This Friday, Five Days at Memorial premieres on Apple TV+ with three episodes.
Based on the bestselling non-fiction book of the same name by Sherri Fink, it's a harrowing, thought-provoking, and sometimes gruesome look at five days at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
It's a massive undertaking, but co-creators and executive producers Carlton Cuse and John Ridley have a firm grasp of the material.
Cuse and Ridley not only wrote the series but, between them, directed the first five episodes. Those are the episodes that will stick with you long after the show's conclusion.
You'll be dropped right into the commotion at Memorial on Friday with the three-episode premiere.
Hurricane Katrina elicits thoughts on the nature of the storm, but it was when the levees broke that New Orleans was left unprepared and unable to, quite literally, weather the storm.
What happened next was unprecedented, and using...
Based on the bestselling non-fiction book of the same name by Sherri Fink, it's a harrowing, thought-provoking, and sometimes gruesome look at five days at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
It's a massive undertaking, but co-creators and executive producers Carlton Cuse and John Ridley have a firm grasp of the material.
Cuse and Ridley not only wrote the series but, between them, directed the first five episodes. Those are the episodes that will stick with you long after the show's conclusion.
You'll be dropped right into the commotion at Memorial on Friday with the three-episode premiere.
Hurricane Katrina elicits thoughts on the nature of the storm, but it was when the levees broke that New Orleans was left unprepared and unable to, quite literally, weather the storm.
What happened next was unprecedented, and using...
- 8/11/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Apple TV+'s new miniseries, "Five Days at Memorial" - out Aug. 12 - traces five harrowing days at a New Orleans hospital in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Pairing archival and news footage with the fictionalized scenes, the show reminds viewers that the chaotic time period that followed the natural disaster really happened not even 20 years ago. How much of the fictional onscreen story is based in reality? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
What Really Happened at Memorial Medical Center?
"Five Days at Memorial" is based on a nonfiction book by the same name, "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital" by Sheri Fink. The book, in turn, expands on an article that won Fink the Pulitzer Prize, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," published as a joint project by ProPublica and The New York Times in 2009.
In every version of the story, the...
What Really Happened at Memorial Medical Center?
"Five Days at Memorial" is based on a nonfiction book by the same name, "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital" by Sheri Fink. The book, in turn, expands on an article that won Fink the Pulitzer Prize, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," published as a joint project by ProPublica and The New York Times in 2009.
In every version of the story, the...
- 8/10/2022
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
Click here to read the full article.
The multi-layered tragedy of Hurricane Katrina gets the Chernobyl treatment in Apple TV+’s Five Days at Memorial, a generally nightmarish, sometimes damning new eight-part limited series sure to stick with viewers who stick with it through its poorly focused home stretch.
Five Days at Memorial benefits from not taking on the responsibility of being a definitive Hurricane Katrina chronicle, for now a distinction held by Spike Lee’s HBO documentaries When The Levees Broke and If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise. Using Sheri Fink’s 2013 book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital as its source material, the Apple series instead is a snapshot that encompasses many aspects of a catastrophe that blended natural disaster and epic human screw-up. But it’s best to acknowledge it’s only “many” and surely not “all,” even...
The multi-layered tragedy of Hurricane Katrina gets the Chernobyl treatment in Apple TV+’s Five Days at Memorial, a generally nightmarish, sometimes damning new eight-part limited series sure to stick with viewers who stick with it through its poorly focused home stretch.
Five Days at Memorial benefits from not taking on the responsibility of being a definitive Hurricane Katrina chronicle, for now a distinction held by Spike Lee’s HBO documentaries When The Levees Broke and If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise. Using Sheri Fink’s 2013 book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital as its source material, the Apple series instead is a snapshot that encompasses many aspects of a catastrophe that blended natural disaster and epic human screw-up. But it’s best to acknowledge it’s only “many” and surely not “all,” even...
- 8/9/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Updated, 7 Am: Apple has released the full trailer for Five Days At Memorial, its limited series that chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a New Orleans hospital. Vera Farmiga, Cornelius Smith Jr. and Cherry Jones star in the series which premieres Friday, August 12. You can watch the new trailer above and the previously released teaser trailer below.
Previous, June 22: “There is nothing else to do for them except to them make them comfortable.” So says Vera Farmiga’s Dr. Anna Pou in the first trailer for Apple TV’s Hurricane Katrina drama Five Days At Memorial.
Written by EPs Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, the limited series chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a New Orleans hospital. In the five days following the storm, thousands were trapped inside Memorial Medical Center. When the floodwaters rose, power failed and heat soared,...
Previous, June 22: “There is nothing else to do for them except to them make them comfortable.” So says Vera Farmiga’s Dr. Anna Pou in the first trailer for Apple TV’s Hurricane Katrina drama Five Days At Memorial.
Written by EPs Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, the limited series chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a New Orleans hospital. In the five days following the storm, thousands were trapped inside Memorial Medical Center. When the floodwaters rose, power failed and heat soared,...
- 7/13/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Five Days at Memorial is the rare TV show that doesn't involve Ryan Murphy—but he came close. The Apple TV+ drama, which stars Vera Farmiga and premieres August 12, tells the real-life story of a New Orleans hospital's struggle in the days following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It turns out, Murphy originally had plans to use the story—based on the book of the same name by Sheri Fink—on a season of his acclaimed American Crime Story series. In 2017, it was announced that Sarah Paulson was set to play Dr. Anna Pou, the role that now belongs to Farmiga, in a project titled American Crime Story: Katrina. However, the show never saw the light of day. Murphy later revealed it just...
- 6/22/2022
- E! Online
“There is nothing else to do for them except to them make them comfortable,” Dr. Anna Pou (Vera Farmiga) says in the teaser for Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series, Five Days at Memorial, premiering in August. Based on the book of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink, the series chronicles the impact of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center, inside which thousands were trapped in the five days following the storm. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at the hospital were forced to make decisions that would follow them for years to come. And after those five days, questions arose about the 45 dead bodies. Did the hospital staff do everything they could? Did they just die because of the conditions? Watch the teaser above for more. Five Days at Memorial premieres on Friday, August 12, with the first three episodes.
- 6/22/2022
- TV Insider
Julie Ann Emery is set to star opposite Vera Farmiga, Adepero Oduye and Cornelius Smith Jr. in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature.
Written by Ridley and Cuse based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Emery will play Diane Robichaux, an assistant administrator for LifeCare, who finds herself deeply involved in the events following the hurricane.
Farmiga plays Dr. Anna Pou, the doctor on duty at Memorial when the storm hit. Smith plays Dr. Bryant King, an internist, and Oduye plays Karen Wynn, the nurse...
Written by Ridley and Cuse based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Emery will play Diane Robichaux, an assistant administrator for LifeCare, who finds herself deeply involved in the events following the hurricane.
Farmiga plays Dr. Anna Pou, the doctor on duty at Memorial when the storm hit. Smith plays Dr. Bryant King, an internist, and Oduye plays Karen Wynn, the nurse...
- 4/29/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Los Angeles, March 19 (Ians) Actress Vera Farmiga will star in the series "Five Days At Memorial", which will chronicle the first five days in a New Orleans hospital in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina struck.
"When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come," says a release shared by Just Jared.
Vera will be playing the role of Dr. Anna Pou in the series, which is based on the acclaimed non-fiction novel by Sheri Fink.
It is being written for television by John Ridley of "12 Years A Slave" and Carlton Cuse of "Lost". Ridley and Cuse will also serve as directors and executive producers.
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"When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come," says a release shared by Just Jared.
Vera will be playing the role of Dr. Anna Pou in the series, which is based on the acclaimed non-fiction novel by Sheri Fink.
It is being written for television by John Ridley of "12 Years A Slave" and Carlton Cuse of "Lost". Ridley and Cuse will also serve as directors and executive producers.
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- 3/19/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Vera Farmiga has been tapped to star in Apple’s upcoming Hurricane Katrina limited series “Five Days at Memorial,” the streamer announced Thursday.
Based on Sheri Fink’s 2013 novel of the same name, “Five Days At Memorial” takes place over “the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall” in August 2005, per Apple. “When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.”
Farmiga will star as Dr. Anna Pou.
John Ridley and Carlton Cuse are co-creators on the project and will split showrunning duties, with Fink also producing. Ridley will also direct the limited series, which is produced by ABC Signature.
“Five Days at Memorial” was previously set to serve as the basis for the third season of “American Crime Story,” with Ryan Murphy’s frequent collaborator Sarah Paulson starring as Pou.
Based on Sheri Fink’s 2013 novel of the same name, “Five Days At Memorial” takes place over “the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall” in August 2005, per Apple. “When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.”
Farmiga will star as Dr. Anna Pou.
John Ridley and Carlton Cuse are co-creators on the project and will split showrunning duties, with Fink also producing. Ridley will also direct the limited series, which is produced by ABC Signature.
“Five Days at Memorial” was previously set to serve as the basis for the third season of “American Crime Story,” with Ryan Murphy’s frequent collaborator Sarah Paulson starring as Pou.
- 3/18/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Vera Farmiga has been cast in a lead role of the Apple drama series “Five Days at Memorial,” Variety has learned.
The series is based on the Sheri Fink novel of the same name. It chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come. Farmiga will star in the role of Dr. Anna Pou.
Farmiga was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for her role in “Up in the Air,” with other feature credits like “The Departed,” “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” and “Orphan.” She will also be seen in the upcoming feature “The Many Saints of Newark.” On the TV side, she has starred in shows like “When They See Us” and “Bates Motel.” Variety...
The series is based on the Sheri Fink novel of the same name. It chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come. Farmiga will star in the role of Dr. Anna Pou.
Farmiga was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for her role in “Up in the Air,” with other feature credits like “The Departed,” “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” and “Orphan.” She will also be seen in the upcoming feature “The Many Saints of Newark.” On the TV side, she has starred in shows like “When They See Us” and “Bates Motel.” Variety...
- 3/18/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Vera Farmiga has been tapped as the lead in Five Days At Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature. The project, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, reunites former Bates Motel star Farmiga with the Psycho prequel’s co-creator/executive producer Cuse.
Written by Ridley and Cuse based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Farmiga will play the role of Dr. Anna Pou, the doctor on duty at Memorial when the storm hit.
Ultimately, 40 dead bodies were found in the hospital. The book looks to answer the question of whether medical staff at Memorial,...
Written by Ridley and Cuse based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Farmiga will play the role of Dr. Anna Pou, the doctor on duty at Memorial when the storm hit.
Ultimately, 40 dead bodies were found in the hospital. The book looks to answer the question of whether medical staff at Memorial,...
- 3/18/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple TV+ has picked up Five Days at Memorial, a limited series from Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse that chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.
Five Days at Memorial, from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Ultimately, 40 dead bodies were found in the hospital. The book explores how and why that happened. On the surface, it is a disaster thriller, but at its core is an examination of difficult moral and ethical decision-making in a time of great crisis.
The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.
Five Days at Memorial, from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Ultimately, 40 dead bodies were found in the hospital. The book explores how and why that happened. On the surface, it is a disaster thriller, but at its core is an examination of difficult moral and ethical decision-making in a time of great crisis.
- 9/1/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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