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HBO & Adam McKay Developing Adaptation Of COVID-19 Vaccine Hunt Book ‘The First Shot’
Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The search for a vaccine for COVID-19 is one of the biggest news stories around the world right now. HBO is turning this hunt into a limited series with Succession exec producer Adam McKay.Deadline understands that the premium cable network has optioned The First Show, a non-fiction narrative book by The Atlantic and New York Times writer Brendan Borrell.McKay’s Hyperobject Industries will produce the Untitled Vaccine Project and he will exec produce alongside Todd Schulman and Borrell.The book, which was sold at auction to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, tells the story of the global coronavirus vaccine race.
