HBO Pulls The Plug On Darren Aronofsky’s MADDADDAM Series

Over two years ago, we found out that HBO had picked up an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, to be written and directed by none other than Darren Aronofsky. This was big, exciting news! Aronofsky doing post-apocalyptic sci-fi on HBO? It was almost too good to be true.

Turns out, it was, as HBO has declined to pursue Aronofsky's MaddAddam series any further. They have, in the words of The Playlist, "let it go", a bit of phrasing that carries with it a certain amount of hope: Aronofsky's already got the thing written, and will apparently be free to shop it around to other networks. 

If, like me, you haven't read Atwood's series, be aware that MaddAddam takes place in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by flooding, and (according to our own Evan Saathoff, who read the first novel in the series several years ago) where "pigs are cloned to grow organs for people, kids watch all manner of violent pornography on an advanced version of the Internet, and at some point pretty much everyone dies."

That sounds right up my alley, so I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that Aronofsky finds a new home for MaddAddam in the near future.

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