HBO Adapting They Both Die at the End with J.J. Abrams

HBO Adapting They Both Die at the End with J.J. Abrams

HBO and J.J. Abrams are teaming up once more to adapt Adam Silvera’s 2017 New York Times best-selling novel They Both Die at the End, according to Deadline.

Set in the near-future in which people are given a phone call to alert them of their last day on Earth, They Both Die at the End follows two boys who join a number of people as they live out their final day via a number of “scary, funny, weird, hopeful, [and] romantic” situations.

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The Other Two co-creator Chris Kelly will aid in the production. Kelly also wrote and directed Other People, which made its debut at the Sundance film Festival in 2016, and served as a writer for SNL.

They Both Die at the End marks the latest HBO venture for Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions, which also produces the hit sci-fi drama Westworld. The studio recently received a series pickup for its upcoming fantasy drama Demimonde.

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Abrams is currently directing the latest installment of the Star Wars saga, Star Wars: Episode IX, set to storm cinemas this Christmas.

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