Overview
- The premium network issued a straight-to-series order for the adaptation of Adrian McKinty’s 2019 thriller about a parent forced into a relay-style kidnapping scheme.
- Damon Lindelof will serve as showrunner and executive producer, with the pilot script written by Lindelof and Carly Wray from a story by Lindelof, Wray and Breannah Gibson.
- HBO says the series will expand the novel’s mythology, with specific plot details kept under wraps.
- Media Res is co-producing, with executive producers Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer and Shane Salerno, and author Adrian McKinty serving as co–executive producer.
- Casting and production timing have not been announced, and reports of an early-2026 launch are described as tentative.