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Bruce Miller won’t be leaving the world of The Handmaid’s Tale behind when he concludes work on the show’s final season – he’s working on an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s belated sequel, The Testaments, which was first published in 2017.

Miller told THR that the new series isn’t as centred on Elisabeth Moss’ June. “When [The Handmaid’s Tale] ends, luckily, very fortunately, we get to go into The Testaments, which June’s story is a part of but not central to. It’s a perfect creative situation that we get to peel off but maintain our connection with all of our characters that we’ve built and loved, and all of the actors. The part that is heartbreaking and terrifying is to leave the actors behind.”

The shows will stand alone. “The way Margaret did it, which is wonderful, is that you close one and you say, ‘I don’t have to open that. But let’s open the next one and see what’s in there. It could be anything.’ It is a continuation, but it’s more like a separate chapter. The horizons are more limitless.”