Station Eleven TV Series on HBO Max

Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel to Star in ‘Station Eleven’ Series at HBO Max

Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel have been cast in the lead roles of HBO Max’s upcoming “Station Eleven” series adaptation.

The show is based on the book of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel. Described as a postapocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, the series tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.

Davis will play Kirsten, a survivor of the Georgia Flu pandemic and performer in a post-apocalyptic Shakespeare troupe. Patel will play Jeevan, an unemployed lost soul who—when the Georgia Flu strikes—must become a leader.

Davis’ previous TV credits include “Halt and Catch Fire” and “Black Mirror.” On the film side, she will appear in the upcoming release “Terminator: Dark Fate” and has previously starred in films such as “Blade Runner 2049,” “The Martian,” and “What If.” She is repped by UTA and Sloane Offer.

Patel recently starred in the film “Yesterday” as well as “The Aeronauts.” He previously appeared in over 500 episodes of the show “EastEnders” and will star in the upcoming shows “Avenue 5” and “The Luminaries.” He is repped by WME, 42, and Ziffren Brittenham.

The 10-episode limited series is expected to launch in spring 2020. Patrick Somerville is adapting the book for the screen and will also serve as the showrunner. Hiro Murai is attached to direct and executive produce. Scott Steindorff, Scott Delman, and Dylan Russel will also executive produce. Nate Matteson will serve as co-executive producer. Paramount Television is the studio behind the series.

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/st...cast-mackenzie-davis-himesh-patel-1203375614/

David Wilmot Joins ‘Station Eleven’ HBO Max Limited Series


EXCLUSIVE: Former The Alienist star David Wilmot is set as a series regular in HBO Max’s Station Eleven, a 10-episode post-apocalyptic drama limited series based on the international bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel, from Maniac creator Patrick Somerville and Paramount TV.


Written and executive produced by Somerville, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines. It tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.


Wilmot will play Clark, a corporate consultant who gave up artistic ambitions but discovers a hero within himself in the post-apocalyptic landscape.


Somerville also will serve as showrunner. Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Barry) directs and executive produces with Somerville, Scott Steindorff, Scott Delman and Dylan Russell. Nate Matteson will serve as co-EP. Paramount TV is the studio.


Wilmot is about to wrap on Barkskins for Fox/Nat Geo. He was seen this year in Calm with Horses and Ordinary Love, both of which screened at Toronto International Film Festival and London Film Festival. He starred in The Alienist for TNT and probably is best known for John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary and The Guard, 71 with Yann Demange and Shadow Dancer with James Marsh. He is repped by Alexander Cooke at Hamilton Hodell and Ziffren Brittenham.


https://deadline.com/2019/10/david-wilmot-station-eleven-hbo-max-limited-series-1202774161/

For those who haven't read the book:

"One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Buzzfeed, and Entertainment Weekly, Time, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minnesota Public Radio, The Huffington Post, BookPage, Time Out, BookRiot

“A superb novel . . . [that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the word but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Darkly lyrical. . . . A truly haunting book, one that is hard to put down." —The Seattle Times

“Tender and lovely. . . . Equal parts page-turner and poem.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Mesmerizing.” — People

“Mandel delivers a beautifully observed walk through her book’s 21st century world…. I kept putting the book down, looking around me, and thinking, ‘Everything is a miracle.’”—Matt Thompson, NPR

“Magnificent.” —Booklist

“Unmissable. . . . A literary page-turner, impeccably paced, which celebrates the world lost.” —Vulture

“Haunting and riveting.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Think of Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion. . . . Magnetic.” —Kirkus (starred)

“It’s hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment. Station Eleven, if we were to talk about it in our usual way, would seem like a book that combines high culture and low culture—“literary fiction” and “genre fiction.” But those categories aren’t really adequate to describe the book” —The New Yorker

“Audacious. . . . A book about gratitude, about life right now, if we can live to look back on it." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“A surprisingly beautiful story of human relationships amid devastation.” —The Washington Post

“Soul-quaking. . . . Mandel displays the impressive skill of evoking both terror and empathy.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Possibly the most captivating and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read.” —The Independent (London)

“One of the best things I’ve read on the ability of art to endure in a good long while.” —Tobias Carroll, Electric Literature

“Will change the post-apocalyptic genre. . . . This isn’t a story about survival, it’s a story about living.” —Boston Herald

“A big, brilliant, ambitious, genre-bending novel. . . . Hands-down one of my favorite books of the year.” —Sarah McCarry, Tor.com

“Strange, poetic, thrilling, and grim all at once, Station Eleven is a prismatic tale about survival, unexpected coincidences, and the significance of art.” —Bustle, “Best Book of the Month”

“Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live.” —Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist"

About the Author
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL's five previous novels include The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-two languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter."

Station Eleven: Mandel, Emily St. John: 8601422213614: Amazon.com: Books

It really is a lovely book, IMHO well worth reading before, or after, the series.