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Michael Sarnoski to Direct HBO's The Chain Pilot

His attachment strengthens a high-profile team led by Damon Lindelof with Jodie Comer attached, signaling HBO's push to adapt the novel's moral kidnapping premise as prestige television.

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.