Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist whose sick burns might actually cause Donald Trump to rupture an artery, has captured the world’s hearts and minds as the determined face of a generation trying desperately to get adults to acknowledge and take action against the realities of climate change. Now, she’s finally getting the documentary treatment in a forthcoming film from Hulu that will trace her activism from the school strike in which she asked “If you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school?” to her recent appointment as Time’s Person of the Year. Sure, yes, give us her timeline, but also give Greta plenty of time to make fun of world leaders. [Deadline]
In other “phenomenal kid gets deserved attention” news, the 15-year-old producer and star of Little, Marsai Martin, is the youngest person to ever sign a production deal with Universal. She will produce the feature comedy Queen through her company, Genius Productions. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Lisa Kudrow is joining Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan for the animated Fox series Housebroken that follows the lives of therapy animals. [Variety]
Leslie Jones’s new Netflix stand-up special will be directed by the guys responsible for ruining Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Everyone, get your hopes way up so that they might be more easily dashed. [Deadline]
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