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HBO Orders High School Drama Euphoria, Drake to Executive Produce
HBO has announced that it has given a series order to Euphoria, a high school-set drama executive produced by Drake. The network announced on Monday that they picked up the series, which follows a group of high school students as they navigate drugs, sex, identity, trauma, social media, love and friendship.
The series is written by Sam Levinson, who will executive produce alongside Drake, Future the Prince, Ravi Nandan, Kevin Turen, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin, Tmira Yardeni, Mirit Toovi, Yoram Mokadi, and Gary Lennon. Augustine Frizzell directed the pilot for the show, which A24 is serving as the production company for.
Euphoria is based on the Israeli series of the same name was created by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin. The US version stars Zendaya as Rue, Maude Apatow as Lexi, Brian “Astro” Bradley as McKay, Angus Cloud as Fezco, Eric Dane as Cal, Alexa Demie as Maddy, Jacob Elordi as Nate, Barbie Ferreira as Kat, Nika King as Leslie, Storm Reid as Gia, Hunter Schafer as Jules, and Sydney Sweeney as Cassie.
Zendaya posted to Instagram to promote the news:
