Proving definitively that a successful videogame adaptation is possible (at least on television), HBO's biggest hit since Game of Thrones comes from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin along with Neil Druckmann, the co-president of the game studio (Naughty Dog) that created the critically acclaimed Play...
Harris also portrayed Valery Legasov, another character who hanged himself, in HBO’s 2019 limited series Chernobyl. The Soviet inorganic chemist was gravely ill with radiation poisoning when he died, as depicted in the Emmy-winning show—an act, as Harris told Vanity Fair when he received an ...
It’s very common for this to happen in adaptations of books and fictionalized accounts of real-world events. The HBO miniseriesChernobyl, which chronicles the 1986 nuclear disaster, does this with one of its characters. Writer Craig Mazin needed a way to represent the many scientists who invest...