We needed to make our stories a little different to get that back. "The spirit of that book to me was always about what’s gentle and human inside of us before and after, and how do we get back to the people that we love? And how is that hard? Emily’s voice as a novelist is impressive for what it does to knit things together. At the TCA panel, Somerville called the show "a very aggressive adaptation of a very beautiful book that I love," adding that he and Mandel had discussed the adaptation at length. Murai directed Childish Gambino's 2018 music video for "This Is America," and has also helmed episodes of Atlanta and Barry.įans of the book should prepare themselves for some major changes. He adapted Mandel's novel for the small screen, while Hiro Murai will direct and executive produce.
Somerville is best known for creating Maniac, a surreal 2018 Netflix dramedy which starred Emma Stone and Jonah Hill as participants in a trippy pharmaceutical trial.
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Per Deadline, the full cast also includes Nabhaan Rizwan, Philippine Velge, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Daniel Zovatto, and Lori Petty. Other key roles include Yesterday star Himesh Patel as Jeevan, Danielle Deadwyler as Miranda, and David Wilmot as Clark. The role of Leander will be played by Gael Garcia Bernal. The cast is populated largely with relative unknowns and a few familiar faces.
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This is the most uplifting post-apocalyptic show you’re likely to see. On Friday, December 17, HBO Max released the first three episodes of its dynamite limited series Station Eleven. Don’t let the pandemic premise chase you off. She harbors a lingering obsession with an actor named Arthur Leander, whose onstage death she witnessed on the night the pandemic began. Review: In ‘Station Eleven,’ the World Ends, Beautifully. A pandemic show based on a pandemic novel airing two years into a global pandemic, 'Station Eleven' may seem fatigue-inducing. John Mandels 2014 novel of the same name into an HBO Max limited series.
Years later, she's part of a nomadic troupe of Shakespeare actors, who travel the largely-deserted Great Lakes region putting on performances. 'Station Eleven' premiered on December 16, adapting Emily St. Glen Weldon Enlarge this image Your personal threshold for pandemic fiction, at this stage in our ongoing global kaleidoscopic bacchanalia of doom, may have dropped precipitously since the. Davis will play Kirsten, a former child actor who was only eight when the Georgia Flu destroyed the world. The series, just like the novel, will jump back and forth through time and between characters, charting the gradual collapse of society in the past, and the lives of a handful of survivors in the present.
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