HBO lands Claire Foy-led Facebook drama series Doomsday Machine
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The premium cable network beat out other outlets in a bidding war for the limited drama series based on New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang's 2021 book An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, starring The Crown alum Emmy winner as Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The project, from Anonymous Content and Wiip, was first announced last October. Unlike Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network, Doomsday Machine is the “riveting human drama chronicling the political and social minefields Facebook has navigated on its relentless quest for growth," per HBO. "The series places us in the shoes of Sheryl Sandberg (Foy) and Mark Zuckerberg, who are shaping the way that billions of people around the world communicate and consume information." Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar is expected to pen Doomsday Machine.
TOPICS: Claire Foy, HBO, Doomsday Machine, Ayad Akhtar, In Development
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