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Jodie Comer Cast to Lead HBO’s ‘The Chain’ From Damon Lindelof

HBO ordered eight episodes straight to series under Damon Lindelof’s overall deal.

Overview

  • Comer’s casting, announced Thursday by multiple outlets, puts her in the role of Rachel, a mother forced into a nightmare after her daughter is abducted.
  • The show is an eight-episode limited series for HBO with Damon Lindelof as writer and showrunner, and he and Carly Wray wrote the pilot from a story by Lindelof, Wray, and Breannah Gibson.
  • Based on Adrian McKinty’s 2019 novel, the plot turns on a criminal “chain” that forces parents to kidnap another child to free their own.
  • HBO is co-producing with Media Res, with Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer, Shane Salerno, Breannah Gibson, and Joe Iberti as executive producers, and author Adrian McKinty as co-executive producer.
  • No filming start or premiere date has been announced, so the next updates to watch for are further casting and production details.