Overview
- Reports say Michael Sarnoski has joined HBO's eight-episode limited series The Chain to direct the pilot and serve as an executive producer.
- Damon Lindelof is the show's writer, executive producer and showrunner while Jodie Comer is cast as Rachel, the series' central character.
- The pilot story credit names Lindelof, Carly Wray and Breannah Gibson with Lindelof and Wray writing the pilot script and multiple executive producers confirmed.
- The project remains in preproduction with no announced filming start or premiere date and further news is expected on casting and scheduling.
- The series adapts Adrian McKinty's bestseller about a coercive kidnapping scheme that forces victims into crimes and is produced by Media Res with McKinty as co-executive producer.