Less Than Zero based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name is heading to the small screen. Hulu has given a pilot order to an adaptation from Ellis, Greenleaf creator Craig Wright, and Fox 21 Television Studios and have cast Austin Abrams (The Walking Dead, Paper Towns) to star in the project per Deadline. Abrams will play Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas.
Adapted by Wright, Less Than Zero follows a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend and his friend who struggles with addiction. Less Than Zero presents a look at the culture of wealthy, decadent youth in Los Angeles.
Having grown up in the “excess and lavish 80s Los Angeles,” but unlike all of his friends who stayed behind for college, Clay is in now in his freshman year on the east coast. He returns home for winter break in the pilot and has a complicated relationship with Blair, his high school girlfriend, and is worried about his friend Julian.
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