HBO Max Developing Dystopian Thriller ‘In Memoriam’ With ‘Mr Robot’ Director Niels Arden Oplev, Playwright Charley Miles, Participant & Buccaneer
Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Imagine a world where humans lose the capacity to store long-term recollections and instead are issued a government memory chip. This is the world of In Memoriam, a new drama in development at HBO Max.The series comes from rising British playwright Charley Miles and Mr Robot director Niels Arden Oplev.Produced by Buccaneer Media, whose Anna Friel-fronted drama Marcella is in its third season at Netflix, and Participant, the thriller is a returnable, serialised series set in the UK.Miles, who was the Channel 4 Playwright-in-Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2017, writes and Oplev, who also helmed the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie, directs.