Hulu is getting back into business with The Dropout creator Liz Meriwether.

The streamer has ordered a drama series from Meriwether thats loosely based on the 1987 movie Black Widow. Emmy Rossum is also an executive producer and is in talks to play one of the lead roles.

The untitled show will follow an FBI agent who uses secrets from a female serial killers past to try and find her. Rossum would play the FBI agent should her acting deal go through.

The 1987 Black Widow no relation to the Marvel character played by Scarlett Johansson starred Debra Winger as the FBI agent and Theresa Russell as the killer, who married and then killed wealthy men to collect inheritance. New Girl creator Meriwether previously created and ran The Dropout, based on the story of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, for Hulu; the drama netted an Emmy win for star Amanda Seyfried and was nominated for best limited or anthology series. Meriwether also earned a writing nomination. She also co-created (with Kim Rosenstock) FXs Dying for Sex, which will stream on Hulu.

Rossum most recently starred in The Crowded Room at Apple TV+ and starred in and executive produced Angelyne based on a Hollywood Reporter profile of the L.A. icon for Peacock. She also exec produced 2023s Three Women for Starz.

Disneys 20th Television and Searchlight Television are producing the series. Meriwether will executive produce with Rossum and her Composition 8 partner Sara Moskowitz and Ron Bass, who wrote the 1987 film.

Meriwether is repped by WME and McKuin Frankel. Rossum is repped by MGMT Entertainment,WME, Wolf Kasteler Public Relations and Felker Toczek.