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HBO Orders Damon Lindelof’s ‘The Chain’ as Eight-Episode Limited Series

The Emmy-winning creator returns to showrunning under his two-year HBO deal.

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.