| Title: | The Chain |
| Logline: | Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it’s a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will see her again is to follow her instructions exactly: pay a ransom, and find another child to abduct. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself, whose son has been taken, and if Rachel doesn’t do as she’s told, the boy will die. Rachel is now part of The Chain. |
| Writer(s): | Damon Lindelof, Carly Wray |
| Genre(s): | Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Agency: | Meyash Prabhu | WME (Wray) |
| Management: | Peter Micelli, Michael J. Kagan, Tanya Cohen | Range Media Partners (Lindelof) |
| Attorney: | Bob Myman, Jennifer Grega, Seth Michael | Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light (Lindelof) Tara Kole | Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole (Wray) |
| Network: | HBO |
| Companies: | Media Res |
| Additional: | Straight-to-series order. Eight-part limited series. Based on 2019 novel by Adrian McKinty. The pilot story is by Damon Lindelof, Carly Wray and Breannah Gibson. Damon Lindelof, Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer will executive produce. Shane Salerno with Adrian McKinty will co-executive produce. The material was previously set up as a feature film in June 2020 at Universal. |
