Gender-Swapped Holes Series Ordered to Pilot at Disney+

Andy Swift

7 January 2025 at 4:12 pm·1-min read

Disney+ is digging up a familiar IP for its next original series.

The streamer is developing a gender-swapped TV series of the 1998 Louis Sachar novel Holes, for which a pilot has been ordered, our sister site Variety reports. Disney previously adapted the book into a 2003 big-screen feature starring Shia LaBeouf.

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According to the official logline, “a teenage girl is sent to a detention camp where the ruthless Warden forces the campers to dig holes for a mysterious purpose.”

Liz Phang will reportedly serve as showrunner, executive-producing alongside writer Alina Mankin, Drew Goddard, Sarah Esberg and Mike Medavoy. The pilot is being produced by Walden Media, which also produced the 2003 movie.

In addition to LaBeouf, the movie’s sprawling ensemble cast included Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Henry Winkler, Eartha Kitt, Dulé Hill and Particia Arquette.

Both the book and the movie told the story of Stanley “Caveman” Yelnats IV, a teenage boy who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correction facility, after being wrongfully accused of stealing.

Are you intrigued by the idea of a gender-swapped version of the Holes story? Drop a comment with your thoughts below.

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