Joe Otterson TV ReporterChris Messina is set for a lead role in the upcoming HBO Max pilot “Verbatim,” Variety has learned.The project is based on Brett Weiner’s New York Times Op Docs Series that screened at Sundance in 2014 and 2016.
It is described as an anthology series based on actual events in which all dialogue is taken from primary sources and presented verbatim.The exact details of Messina’s character are being kept under wraps, but the pilot episode follows the story of the 2019 college admissions scandal.
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