Dev Patel, Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey to star in Amazon's upcoming anthology series Modern Love

Dev Patel, Tina Fey and Anne Hathaway are all set to star in streaming platform Amazon's upcoming anthology series Modern Love.

Dev Patel. Image from Twitter @olsonjacob

Modern Love is based on the New York Times column and weekly podcast, reports Deadline.

The cast also includes: John Slattery, Catherine Keener, Andy Garcia, Cristin Milioti, Brandon Victor Dixon, Olivia Cooke, Andrew Scott, Julia Garner, Shea Whigham, Gary Carr, Sofia Boutella, and John Gallagher Jr.

In addition, Shameless alum Emmy Rossum will direct an episode of the series, as will Sharon Horgan and Tom Hall. Horgan will direct the Tina Fey-John Slattery led episode, which she also wrote. Hall also wrote his episode, while Rossum will direct an episode written by the late Audrey Wells.

John Carney is the series writer, director, executive producer, and showrunner, writes Variety.

Consisting of eight standalone episodes, the half-hour series will explore love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic and self love.

Modern Love, which was ordered to series in June, marks the latest anthology series for Amazon. The streamer recently launched the Matthew Weiner series The Romanoffs.

The series produced by Storied Media Group and the New York Times, is currently in production in New York.

(With inputs from Indo-Asian News Service)