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The creators and star of the HBO Max series Station Eleven became worried about releasing a show about a pandemic during the second year of the Covid pandemic. However, creator Patrick Somerville, director Hiro Murai and star Himesh Patel focused on the limited series’ hopeful message.

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Bier Gislason, the rising genre filmmaker whose feature directorial debut Attachment world premiered to critical acclaim at last year’s Tribeca Festival, has signed with Curate for management.

EXCLUSIVE: Mackenzie Davis is set to join the cast of Speak No Evil for Blumhouse and Universal.

Hunter Ingram Train rides have proven to be a mixed bag for Himesh Patel.In HBO Max’s Emmy-nominated limited series “Station Eleven,” Patel’s character, Jeevan Chaudhary, is on an outbound Chicago train when his physician sister calls to inform him of a lethal virus seizing the city. It’s a sobering conversation — one made all the more surreal by real-world events — that forever changes the course of Jeevan’s life.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “22 Seconds” by Patterson/Paetro (Little, Brown)2. “The Summer Place” by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)3.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“I remember damage.” That haunting quote, from the novel “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel, becomes an ongoing theme in the TV series of the same name, adapted by Patrick Somerville for HBO Max.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “22 Seconds” by Patterson/Paetro (Little, Brown)2. “Run, Rose, Run” by Parton/Patterson (Little, Brown)3.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Dream Town” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)2. “Run, Rose, Run” by Parton/Patterson (Little, Brown)3.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Dream Town” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)2. “Beautiful” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)3.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “The Investigator” by John Sandford (G.P. Putnam's Sons)2.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Run, Rose, Run” by Parton/Patterson (Little, Brown)2. “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St.

Easter Bunny” by Adam Wallace (HMH Books for Young Readers)8. “Nightingale” by A.L Jackson, et al. (Book Beautiful)9.

On the heels of the success of HBO Max’s post-apocalyptic limited series Station Eleven, created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel, Somerville and St. John Mandel Mandel are teaming up for series adaptations of Mandel’s most recent book, The Glass Hotel, and her upcoming novel Sea of Tranquility.

While audiences and critics have rejected a lot of misguided pandemic narratives (see Doug Liman’s “Locked Down,” HBO’s Zoom-with-stars series, “Coastal Elites,” and most recently, Judd Apatow’s “The Bubble,” which has been roasted by a lot of critics, including ours), HBO Max’s “Station Eleven” mini-series about the aftermath of a global pandemic, definitely was a big exception. Continue reading Patrick Somerville & ‘Station Eleven’ Author Emily St.

A beautiful apocalypse. A TV show about a pandemic may not sound appealing in the middle of a real pandemic, but HBO Max’s new series Station Eleven became an instant hit.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticYears into the COVID-19 pandemic, “Station Eleven” suggests we got off easy.Both the 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel and its limited-series adaptation on HBO Max tell the story of a viral plague that decimates the world’s population too quickly for any response.

stacked. “Station Eleven” stars Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, Daniel Zovatto, David Wilmot, Matilda Lawler, Philippine Velge, Nabhaan Rizwan and Lori Petty, with Gael Garcìa Bernal and Danielle Deadwyler recurring.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterVerve has signed author Emily St. John Mandel for book-to-screen rights, Variety has learned exclusively.Mandel is an author and novelist.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress-music artist Deborah Cox has been tapped for a recurring role in HBO Max’s Station Eleven, a 10-episode limited drama series based on the international bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel, from Maniac creator Patrick Somerville and Paramount TV Studios.

Daniel Zovatto (Penny Dreadful: City of Angels) and Lori Petty (Orange Is the New Black) are set as series regulars in HBO Max’s Station Eleven, a 10-episode post-apocalyptic limited drama series based on the international bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel. Andy McQueen (Books of Blood), David Cross (Arrested Development), Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars) and Julian Obradors (Mayans, M.C.) will recur on the series, from Maniac creator Patrick Somerville and Paramount TV Studios.

With film and television productions shutting down, concerts and other major events being canceled, and venues from amusement parks to select movie theaters closing their doors temporarily amid coronavirus concerns, there is one tried and true place to which to turn for entertainment and escapism: books.

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