Demimonde, J.J. Abrams’ upcoming HBO show, sounds like it has some issues

Demimonde, a new show from The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, is going to come to HBO at some point, but it’s getting increasingly hard to tell when that might be. Deadline reports that the show has now lost its showrunner, Bash Doran, who originally joined last year.

Does this spell doom for Demimonde? Hardly. Snowpiercer‘s TV adaptation lost its showrunner, found another one, and after a lot of other delays, brought a big trailer to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Additionally, as The Hollywood Reporter notes, it has a straight-to-series order. It might take a while, but Demimonde probably won’t go gently into that good night.

Deadline quotes HBO programming president Casey Bloys from the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “It’s about getting the right team in place,” he said, noting that Abrams is busy with this little movie called Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker at the moment. Apparently, he’s not too busy to weigh in on this decision, though. “Right team” suggests possible differences in what the show is supposed to look like.

Here’s what THR is saying about what this show is actually about:

"It will center on a family who suffer a terrible car crash, putting the scientist mother in a coma. When her daughter begins digging through her experiments, she’s transported to another world amid a battle with a monstrous, oppressive force."

In particular, the “another world” seems like a major part of the show. If Doran and other members of the team couldn’t agree how much role it’d play, that seems like it could have had some bearing on her leaving, but that’s only speculation. It also seems like a pretty complicated show anyway.

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We first heard about Demimonde in 2018. For it to go from announcement to air in 2020 or even 2021 wouldn’t be that bad, actually, considering Westworld‘s long journey to the screen. It was announced in 2013, ordered to series in 2014, and finally aired in 2016. HBO might not even mind its two Abrams projects (he executive produces Westworld) airing in alternate years, ensuring that sci-fi fans always have a reason to keep those subscriptions active.

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