Four years after landing at HBO, J.J. Abrams’ Demimonde is finally coming into level of curiosity.

Danielle Deadwyler has been solid because the lead within the HBO drama that marks the first sequence that the prolific author, producer and director has created since Fox’s Fringe.

Demimonde follows what happens after a lady is torn some distance from her husband and daughter in a brutal scientific accident as she is compelled to unravel a conspiracy to reunite alongside with her family that has been lost to a sad, some distance-off diversified world.

Deadwyler, who is unique off a leading role in HBO Max’s severely praised restricted sequence Living Eleven, will star as Olive Reed, the woman on the guts of the drama.

Abrams created the sequence and serves as author, 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 operate co-showrunners on the sequence. The trio, who additionally exec make, replaced fashioned showrunner Bash Doran, who departed in 2019 as Demimonde manufacturing became paused whereas Abrams performed postproduction on Superstar Wars: The Upward thrust of Skywalker. Abrams’ Unpleasant Robotic topper Ben Stephenson exec produces, whereas the banner’s Rachel Rusch Rich is a co-EP. The sequence hails from Warner Bros. Tv, Abrams’ longtime dwelling and where he remains based mostly entirely with a prosperous general deal.

Deadwyler’s credits include HBO’s Watchmen, FX’s Atlanta and Netflix feature The More difficult They Fall. She next stars as Mamie Till in MGM/Orion Photos’ feature Till and has Netflix restricted sequence From Scratch within the works. She’s repped by Paradigm, Play Administration and Ziffren Brittenham.

Demimonde became first taken out to traders as a spec script in January 2018 and landed at HBO two weeks later with a straight-to-sequence expose. Sources on the time famend that Abrams became impressed with what the pinnacle payment cable community did with Westworld, making HBO the frontrunner for the sequence over deep-pocketed rival Apple. Demimonde marks the first sequence Abrams has created since Fringe in 2008. The sequence remains in early preproduction.