Sam Levinson has not missed in his work as of late. Pushing through the unparalleled conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, Levinson managed to pull together not one, but two Euphoria specials. Then, he worked with Euphoria star Zendaya and John David Washington to make the Netflix film, Malcolm & Marie. Now, he’s turning his attention to yet another project.
Levinson is preparing to adapt the novel, Ohio, for HBO. Written by Stephen Markley, the book examines a small town in Ohio that has been hit by everything from the Great Recession to the opioid crisis. The series will focus on one particular night when four natives of the small town who return on a summer night in 2013.
“On one fateful summer night in 2013, four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up, each of them with a mission, all of them haunted by regrets, secrets, lost loves. There’s Bill Ashcraft, an alcoholic, drug-abusing activist, whose fruitless ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to New Orleans, and now back to ‘The Cane’ with a mysterious package strapped to the underside of his truck,” Markley writes about his best-selling novel.
“Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate reluctantly confronting the mother of her former lover; Dan Eaton, a shy veteran of three tours in Iraq, home for a dinner date with the high school sweetheart he’s tried to forget; and the beautiful, fragile Tina Ross, whose rendezvous with the captain of the football team triggers the novel’s shocking climax.”
There is no word yet as to when the series will begin production.
