Pig director Michael Sarnoski locks himself to The Chain

The series stars Robin Hood‘s Jodie Comer, who plays Rachel, a divorcée, cancer patient, and, if things weren’t bad enough, the mother of a kidnapped girl. After her daughter’s kidnapping, Rachel learns that she’s part of “The Chain,” and the only way to get her daughter back is by kidnapping another child as ransom.

An adaptation of The Chain has been in the works since shortly after the book was published. In 2020, Edgar Wright had been attached to adapt The Chain, which Universal had acquired in a seven-figure deal. After the project stalled out, the property chained itself to Sony, with Emily Blunt in the Rachel position. Finally, because neither studio loved it now and will never love it again, Media Res, the folks behind The Morning Show, picked it up for another seven figures because that’s how much chains cost in this economy.