Emmy and BAFTA Award winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, 28 Years Later) has been tapped as the lead of The Chain, HBO‘s upcoming limited series from Damon Lindeloff and Media Res.
The thriller, based on the bestselling book The Chain by Adrian McKinty, follows Rachel (Comer), a suburban mom who must consider the unthinkable when her daughter is kidnapped.
Lindelof is writer, executive producer and showrunner of The Chain, which is expanding the book’s mythology. Lindelof and Carly Wray wrote the pilot script off a story by Lindelof, Wray and Breannah Gibson.
Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer executive produce for Media Res, which serves as co-studio alongside HBO. Shane Salerno, Breannah Gibson and Joe Iberti also executive produce. McKinty is a co-executive producer.
The project got a series order at HBO, where Lindelof is under an overall deal, in January.
English actress Comer is probably best known for her role as sociopathic assassin Villanelle on BBC America’s Killing Eve, which earned her an Emmy and BAFTA TV Award. She won a second BAFTA TV Award for the 2021 Channel 4 film Help. In movies, Comer recently starred in Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later and will next be seen in The Death of Robin Hood, The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde and Stuffed. She is repped by Independent Talent Group and WME.