News Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos: Hulu Developing TV Pilot for Nash Jenkins’ Novel The book is about privilege and power, the pitfalls of masculinity and its expectations, and other things. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on August 25, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Greg Berlanti, the person behind the CW’s Arrowverse, has another project on his roster. According to Variety, he and Bash Doran (Beef, The Looming Tower) are on board to write and executive produce a TV adaptation of Nash Jenkins’ 2023 debut novel, Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos. This isn’t the only project Berlanti is working on. The prolific producer is also working on a TV adaptation of the Stillwater comics for Amazon MGM Studios. Like Stillwater, it appears that Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos leans on the darker side when it comes to tone. Unlike Stillwater, it doesn’t lean into genre much, other than having a dark academia tilt. Hulu’s logline for the project—a show that “explores privilege, scandal, sexuality and masculinity amid the rise of social media, millennial anxiety and pharmaceuticals”—lines up well with the blurb for the book: When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack Obama begins his first term as president; Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit bump from the newly debuted iPhone; teenagers share confidences and rumors over BlackBerry Messenger and iChat; and the internet as we know it is slowly emerging from its cocoon. So, too, is Foster emerging—a transfer student and anxious young man, Foster is stumbling through adolescence in the wake of his parents’ scandalous divorce. But Foster soon finds himself in the company of Annabeth Whittaker and Jack Albright, the twin centers of Kennedy’s social gravity, who take him under their wing to navigate the cliques and politics of the carelessly entitled.Eighteen months later, Foster will be expelled, following a tragic scandal that leaves Kennedy and its students irreparably changed. When our nameless narrator inherits Foster’s old dorm room, he begins an epic yearslong investigation into what exactly happened. Through interviews with former classmates, Foster’s blog posts, playlists, and text archives, and the narrator’s own obsessive imagination, a story unfurls—Foster’s, yes, but also one that asks us who owns our personal narratives, and how we shape ourselves to be the heroes or villains of our own stories.Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos is about privilege and power, the pitfalls of masculinity and its expectations, and, most distinctly, how we create the mythologies that give meaning to our lives. The project is still in its early days, so no news yet on when we’ll get any casting news or if it’ll make it past a pilot order. [end-mark] The post <i>Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos</i>: Hulu Developing TV Pilot for Nash Jenkins’ Novel appeared first on Reactor.