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Timothy Simons and Ron Cephas Jones join cast of Hulu’s ‘Looking for Alaska’

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Timothy Simons (Veep) and Emmy Award winner Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) have joined the Hulu limited series Looking for Alaska, which is set to go into production later this month.

The series is based on the John Green novel of the same name. It is told through the eyes of teenager Miles “Pudge” Halter (played by All the Money in the World‘s Charlie Plummer), as he enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. He falls in love with a girl, Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth from Sierra Burgess is a Loser), and after her unexpected death, he and his close friends attempt to uncover the truth behind her death and make sense of it.

Simons has been cast in the role of The Eagle. Stern and humorless, he is devoted to the code of Culver Creek Academy. The Eagle runs the school and enjoys the power. He (who watches everything) warns Miles against following in his father’s prankster footsteps.

Jones will play Dr. Hyde, a History of Religion teacher at Culver Creek Academy who is impossibly old, with only one lung – but once he’s in full command who finds his own jokes amusing and who has been very smart for a very long time indeed.

Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will serve as executive producers, alongside Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Green and Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner of Temple Hill. Fake Empire exec Lis Rowinski will co-executive produce. Sarah Adina Smith (Hanna and Legion) will direct the pilot. The series comes from Paramount Television and Schwartz and Savage’s Fake Empire.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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