The first look at HBO Max’sStation Elevenis here.
In the newteaser trailer,Himesh Patel’s character Jeevan is shown checking out of a grocery store with multiple carts full of supplies.
“Hey, excuse me, is this because of that thing?” the checkout clerk asks him, adding after a long pause, “Uh, should I go somewhere?”
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Different voices play over scenes of an increasingly chaotic world as its inhabitants begin to realize what is happening.
“We’ve never seen a flu-like this before,” one voice says, while another adds, “The speed at which this virus kills…”
“You can’t stay here, it’s not safe,” says someone else.
Later, the survivors are shown attempting to rebuild what they have lost.
“I stood, looking over the damage, trying to remember the sweetness of life on earth,” a narrator says. “But there is no before, only now.”
“This strange and awful time was the happiest of my life,” Nabhaan Rizwan, who plays Frank, declares at the end of the trailer.
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ThoughStation Elevenwill premiere amid a very real ongoing global pandemic, filming on the series actually began prior to the spread of COVID-19. Production was later paused due to the virus and then resumed.
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Creator Patrick Somerville has said he believes his adaptation of the story is “about joy,” despite its grim relevance to the current health crisis.
“We had already started and we believed in the concept,” he toldVarietyin September. “We always wanted to make a post-apocalyptic show about joy. As we began to live it, we began to feel feelings we didn’t expect to know about, and they influence things, but I think we did what we were always going to do.”
In addition to Patel, Lawler and Rizwan, the series stars Mackenzie Davis as the older version of Lawler’s character, Kristen, as well as Daniel Zovatto, David Wilmot, Philippine Velge and Lori Petty.Gael García Bernaland Danielle Deadwyler have recurring roles.
Station Elevenwill premiere Dec. 16 on HBO Max.
source: people.com
