FX's "Devs" - From Alex Garland | Starring Sonoya Mizuno & Nick Offerman

[Darth Marcus]

Source: Deadline

FX Picks Up Tech Thriller ‘Devs’ To Series; Sonoya Mizuno & Nick Offerman To Lead Cast – TCA
by Denise Petski - August 3, 2018 10:00am

FX has given a series order to Devs, a drama from Alex Garland, the award-winning writer-director of sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, DNA TV and Scott Rudin Productions, and set the cast. Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina, Maniac, Crazy Rich Asians), Nick Offerman (Fargo, Parks and Recreation) Jin Ha (Jesus Christ Superstar Live) , Zach Grenier (The Good Wife, Deadwood), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Ladybird, Fences), Cailee Spaeny (Bad Times at the El Royale, On the Basis of Sex) and Alison Pill (American Horror Story: Cult, Snowpiercer), will star in the eight-episode limited series, which will premiere on FX in 2019. The project had previously been developed as a pilot. The series pickup was announced today at TCA.

In Devs, which will be produced by FX Productions, a young computer engineer, Lily (Mizuno) investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.

Offerman will play Forest, the CEO of Amaya, whose obsession is the covert work of the company’s development division.

Ha is Jamie, a gifted cyber security specialist, who is Lily’s former boyfriend.

Grenier will play Kenton. Terse, dry and dangerous , Kenton is the head of security at Amaya.

Henderson is Stewart, a cultured intellectual from another era and one of the top technical minds working in Amaya’s secret development division.

Spaeny will portray Lyndon, a young, brilliant, and stubborn employee who works in Amaya’s secret development division.

Pill will play Katie, a gifted quantum physicist tapped by Forest to be his second in command at Amaya.

Garland will executive produce, along with Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich of DNA TV, Eli Bush and Scott Rudin with whom he partnered with on features Annihilation and Ex Machina, and Eli Bush.

“After reading all 8 scripts and hearing Alex’s brilliant vision and commitment to direct all of the epsiodes, it was an easy decision to order Devs to series.” said John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions. “Alex is a visionary artist who with his partners has put together a stellar cast. We are grateful to Alex, Andrew, Allon, Scott, Eli and the brilliant casting team led by Carmen Cuba.”

[Creed]

Garland loves to work with Sonoya, and I approve of this.

[kevin87]

Limited series until it does well and they keep stretching it out? :P I'll watch it though.

[Cremildo]

‘Devs’: After ‘Annihilation,’ Alex Garland Got Sick of Battling With Film Distributors and Turned to TV

Alex Garland has been working on “Devs” for more than two years, and there are still months of work ahead before the show’s spring 2020 release. Knowing the commitment required for his mysterious FX limited series, the Oscar-nominated scribe had very good, artistic reasons in mind before signing up.

“I was really interested to know what it would be like to have closer to eight hours to tell a story rather than two,” Garland said during the New York Comic-Con panel for “Devs.” “The scale and scope were very attractive.”

But he was also frustrated with the filmmaking process — specifically, the distribution complications facing all of his films so far.

“On a more human, personal level, my filmmaking career [has been]: I’ve made something, I’ve given it to a distributor, and they say, ‘We don’t want to distribute this,’” he said, adding that as soon as he turns in his work, it feels “like I’ve already disappointed someone.”

Garland cited the domestic distribution switch for 2014’s “Ex Machina,” when Universal and Focus Features decided against releasing the film in the States, and A24 eventually took on the Oscar-winning science-fiction story. But he also said there were “problems” with his 2018 film “Annihilation,” such as Paramount Pictures selling international rights to Netflix before a controversial domestic release of its own.

“It’s basically been every film I’ve ever worked on,” Garland said. “I just got sick of it… I thought maybe [film] isn’t the right space for me. Basically, it’s not mainstream. So I thought TV might be the right home.”

[kristoffer]

Sounds good!

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/nycc-alex-garland-devs

[Cremildo]

'Devs' to feature original score by 'Ex Machina' & 'Annihilation' composers Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury.

[puddy77]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...g-hulu-1253252

Four FX shows — 'Mrs. America,' 'Devs,' 'A Teacher' and 'The Old Man' — will move exclusively to Hulu as part of a new 'FX on Hulu' hub.

[TsMkLg068426]

Originally Posted by puddy77

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...g-hulu-1253252

Disney is really trying their hardest to kill everything off that made what FX Network is well known for especially with all this new shows being moved to Hulu. I bet they already planning to cancel once moved to Hulu and make every network owned by Fox into PC crap. If they wanted to make everything PC Crap why not get Fox News no one would have cared for that lol.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by TsMkLg068426

Disney is really trying their hardest to kill everything off that made what FX Network is well known for especially with all this new shows being moved to Hulu. I bet they already planning to cancel once moved to Hulu and make every network owned by Fox into PC crap. If they wanted to make everything PC Crap why not get Fox News no one would have cared for that lol.

They have ABC News, so they couldn't get Fox News, they also didn't get the Fox tv network, but they got their production company and cable networks.

[kristoffer]

Can’t wait.

YouTube

[Cremildo]

Devs | Season 1: Official Trailer | FX - YouTube

(not available in my country, so you guys tell me whether it looks good or not)

[Fiffy]

This looks very intriguing. Didn't realize this was from Alex Garland. Glad to see that it'll be on Hulu.

[TheSweetieMan]

It looks very promising.

Visually, it looks spectacular. I love how Rob Hardy uses his highlights. They have such a harsh, visceral look to them.

[scifisuperfan]

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/v...r/vi3010838297

[jay166]

Some mixed early reviews on this one; no surprises being from Garland. Most lean towards the positive, with a few really glowing ones.

I haven't read too many impressions, and only watched the trailer once to get a vibe for what to expect. Not too far away now, and very much excited for this one...

[jay166]

Anyone checked out the first two episodes of this yet?

Very much an Ex Machina / Annihilation vibe so far, which is not a bad thing...

Nick Offerman playing an enigmatic, eccentric tech genius who invites a young impressionable guy to his modern looking compound in the forest.

I love everything Alex Garland so I am on board... and the snippets for future episodes of this run are showing some wild visuals. This one is gonna build into something... and only 8 episodes so only just over a months worth of episodes left to go after the two episode premiere.

Love it and excited to see more...

[Fakejb]

loved the first 2 eps. cant wait for the next one.

[kristoffer]

Also loving this so far! Dat soundtrack!

[Naiera]

Is it on HBO Nordic?

[kristoffer]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Is it on HBO Nordic?

Yep.