{"id":110640,"date":"2019-10-21T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=110640"},"modified":"2019-10-21T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:10:35","slug":"hbo-max-sci-fi-series-station-eleven-adds-mackenzie-davis-himesh-patel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/hbo-max-sci-fi-series-station-eleven-adds-mackenzie-davis-himesh-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max sci-fi series Station Eleven adds Mackenzie Davis &#038; Himesh Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO Max&#8217;s upcoming sci-fi series\u00a0<em><strong>Station Eleven<\/strong><\/em> is getting its cast together, and has found its first few stars in Mackenzie Davis (<em><strong>Halt And Catch Fire<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Terminator: Dark Fate<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0and Himesh Patel (<em><strong>Yesterday<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>EastEnders<\/strong><\/em>), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/10\/mackenzie-davis-himesh-patel-to-star-in-station-eleven-limited-series-hbo-max-1202763678\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The series, which will be available to stream on WarnerMedia&#8217;s upcoming streaming service HBO Max, is based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a post-apocalyptic world and spanning multiple timelines,\u00a0<em><strong>Station Eleven\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>follows the survivors of a devastating swine flu, nicknamed the &#8216;Georgia flu&#8217;, as they attempt to rebuild the world while holding on to what was lost.<\/p>\n<p>Davis is set to play Kirsten, &#8220;a survivor of the Georgia Flu pandemic and performer in a post-apocalyptic Shakespeare troupe.&#8221; Patel will play Jeevan, &#8220;an unemployed lost soul who must become a leader when the Georgia Flu strikes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The series is written and executive produced by Patrick Somerville, who will also serve as showrunner. Hiro Murai (<em><strong>Atlanta<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Barry<\/strong><\/em>) will direct as well as executive produce alongside Somerville, Scott Steindorff, Scott Delman and Dylan Russell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel join HBO Max&#8217;s post-apocalypse series Station Eleven <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":110641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[6673],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/station-eleven.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127599,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110640\/revisions\/127599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}