Charles Randolph Reunites With ‘Big Short’ Partner Adam McKay on HBO Limited Series About COVID-19 Vaccine Race
Charles Randolph is reuniting with Adam McKay, with whom he won a 2016 Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for “The Big Short,” for an HBO limited series about the global coronavirus vaccine race.Randolph is joining the untitled project — which has been in the development stage at the pay TV channel since July 2020, when the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine was still ongoing — as its writer and will executive produce alongside McKay.Based on the books, “The First Shot” by Brendan Borrell and “A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine” by Gregory Zuckerman, the untitled HBO project will tell “the story of the global coronavirus vaccine race,” including “the companies and individuals