J.J. Abrams’ ‘Demimonde’ Sci-Fi Drama Series Not Moving Forward at HBO

variety.com:

Selome Hailu J.J. Abrams’ science fiction drama series “Demimonde” will no longer move forward at HBO.This is the end of a long road for the project, which was ordered to series at HBO in Feb.

2018 after a bidding war with Apple. The series order came over a year before Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath first set a major overall deal for their production company Bad Robot at WarnerMedia.Rumored to have an impressively high budget, “Demimonde” looked to be a major project until recently.

In 2020, “The Handmaid’s Tale” executive producer Kira Snyder and “Life” executive producers Rand Ravich and Far Shariat were set as showrunners, and casting announcements were underway as recently as April 2022, when Danielle Deadwyler was learned to be leading the series.

But progress took a turn in May, when the status of “Demimonde” reportedly came into jeopardy as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav began to scrutinize Bad Robot’s overall deal.