Adam McKay Now Developing a HBO Limited Series About the Hunt for COVID-19 Vaccine!!!

Despite having more than 40 projects in development around town, Adam McKay is slapping his name on one more, hopping back into business with HBO on an untitled limited series about the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine. HBO has optioned the non-fiction book The First Show from author Brendan Borrell, who writes for the New York Times, the Atlantic and Wired, the latter of which … Continue reading Adam McKay Now Developing a HBO Limited Series About the Hunt for COVID-19 Vaccine!!!

‘Don’t Look Up’: Adam McKay’s Meteor Satire led by Jennifer Lawrence Picked by Netflix!!

Adam McKay‘s one busy dude, and it turns out we’re gonna get his next movie a bit earlier than you probably expected. Netflix has scooped up McKay’s sci-fi satire Don’t Look Up with Jennifer Lawrence set to star. We first heard about the project last year, when McKay described it as a “dark satire in the school of Wag the Dog, Doctor Strangelove and Network,” and added, “if it is … Continue reading ‘Don’t Look Up’: Adam McKay’s Meteor Satire led by Jennifer Lawrence Picked by Netflix!!

‘The Uninhabitable Earth’: Adam McKay to Write, Direct, Produce Series for HBO Max!!

Adam McKay is a director and a producer and an Oscar-winning writer, too. He’s also an activist, and he’ll be putting his passion for the environment to good use with The Uninhabitable Earth, a new anthology series for HBO Max inspired by David Wallace-Wells‘ bestselling book and New York Magazine article of the same name. Announced by the streamer at TCA on Wednesday, the series concerns … Continue reading ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’: Adam McKay to Write, Direct, Produce Series for HBO Max!!