MR. ROBOT Director Niels Arden Oplev Developing a Dystopian Thriller For HBO Max Titled IN MEMORIAM
The director of Mr. Robot and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev has teamed up with British playwright Charley Miles, to develop a new dystopian series for HBO Max called In Memoriam.
The fascinating story imagines a world where humans lose the capacity to store long-term recollections and instead are issued a government memory chip. Here’s the full synopsis:
The story is set in the near future. Whilst humanity was busy uploading photos to the cloud and digitising every book ever written, the human brain was quietly evolving, and we lost the capacity to store long-term memory. But Britain’s National Health Service developed the cure: a government-issued memory chip. When 17-year-old Somalia finds her mum dead on their living room floor, she makes an unprecedented, and criminal, decision to implant her mother’s memory chip. Somalia’s search for identity sends her spiraling into an underground world of digital militants and authoritarian dispute, until she finds herself at the heart of a conspiracy; one that will unite her mother’s past and the dark origins of this scientific breakthrough.
This is a pretty cool concept for a story and it’ll be fun to see how exactly that story will play out. When talking about the series, Miles said:
“In Memoriam explores what happens when something that is so essential to the human condition becomes commoditised. It’s about power and politics, but we navigate this anarchic minefield with a 17-year-old girl as our beacon. I’m thrilled to be working with so many brilliant people on this project: the wonderfully supportive teams at Buccaneer and Participant, and Niels – whose work I’ve been a long admirer of, and who has already proven such a generous, insightful collaborator.”
Anna Burns, Development Producer at Buccaneer Media, added:
“Charley is a searing new talent with a huge career ahead of her. The combination of her voice with Niels’ extraordinary vision for the show will, we believe, make for explosive TV. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be developing this very unique show with our friends at Participant.”
David Linde, Participant CEO, said:
“We are excited to be collaborating with such an incredible group of people in bringing this new and thrilling story to audiences worldwide. In Memoriam is the ideal addition to Participant’s growing slate of episodic television as it explores socially relevant issues in unexpected and exciting ways.”
I’ll be looking forward to seeing how this series turns out!
Source: Deadline