HBO Passes on Darren Aronofsky's MADDADDAM Series, But We May Still See It Elsewhere

In June of 2014, we learned that director Darren Aronofsky was working on a TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy for HBO. It's been crickets since then, but Vulture has confirmed with the network that they are no longer developing the series. But that doesn't mean the project is completely dead.

At the New York Film Festival last week, Aronofsky told Vulture that the show "is all written. We are working hard on it, and trying to figure it out. We are still in play." That's great news for those who were hoping to see this story on the small screen. Hopefully someone with deep pockets will be able to pick this up and bring it to life.

Aronofsky also had good things to say about writer Eliza Clark, a Yale graduate and playwright who happens to be Joss Whedon's sister-in-law:

"We just went with the best writer. Her work is amazing. It was interesting to see how her brain worked and processed to bring it all into a cohesive universe. Figuring out how to focus it into a ten-episode series was really challenging. It is such a massive, amazing piece, and we are just trying to find the right home."

Here's hoping they can make this happen soon. MaddAddam is based on Atwood's "speculative fiction" trilogy that includes Oryx and Crake (2003), Year Of The Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), and is set "in the mid-21st century in a world where corporations have taken over for governments and the genetic modification of organisms is perversely ubiquitous. It centers on the events before and after a Waterless Flood that wipes out almost all of the world’s population and follows an extensive cast of characters, including those responsible for the apocalypse and those struggling to survive it." You can read more about each book here.