Four years after landing at HBO, J.J. Abrams’ Demimonde is ultimately coming into focal level.
Danielle Deadwyler has been forged as the lead in the HBO drama that marks the predominant sequence that the prolific creator, producer and director has created since Fox’s Fringe.
Demimonde follows what happens after a girl is torn a long way off from her husband and daughter in a brutal scientific accident as she is compelled to solve a conspiracy to reunite with her household that has been misplaced to a shadowy, distant a large selection of world.
Deadwyler, who is fresh off a number one operate in HBO Max’s significantly praised diminutive sequence Build Eleven, will big name as Olive Reed, the woman on the center of the drama.
Abrams created the sequence and serves as creator, director and exec producer on Demimonde, which landed at HBO following a bidding war with Apple in 2018. Kira Snyder, Rand Ravich and Some distance Shariat abet as co-showrunners on the sequence. The trio, who additionally exec produce, replaced current showrunner Bash Doran, who departed in 2019 as Demimonde manufacturing became paused while Abrams executed postproduction on Star Wars: The Upward push of Skywalker. Abrams’ Proceed Robot topper Ben Stephenson exec produces, while the banner’s Rachel Rusch Smartly to set up is a co-EP. The sequence hails from Warner Bros. Television, Abrams’ longtime home and the build he stays based fully fully with a prosperous overall deal.
Deadwyler’s credits encompass HBO’s Watchmen, FX’s Atlanta and Netflix operate The Tougher They Fall. She next stars as Mamie Except in MGM/Orion Pictures’ operate Except and has Netflix diminutive sequence From Scratch in the works. She’s repped by Paradigm, Play Management and Ziffren Brittenham.
Demimonde became first taken out to investors as a spec script in January 2018 and landed at HBO two weeks later with a straight-to-sequence present. Sources on the time noted that Abrams became impressed with what the highest rate cable network did with Westworld, making HBO the frontrunner for the sequence over deep-pocketed rival Apple. Demimonde marks the predominant sequence Abrams has created since Fringe in 2008. The sequence stays in early preproduction.
