Earlier this year, FX ordered a pilot episode of Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland‘s next sci-fi project “Devs,“ and Deadline updates today that the network has now ordered it to series.
Additionally, Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina, Maniac, Crazy Rich Asians), Nick Offerman (Fargo, Parks and Recreation), Jin Ha (Jesus Christ Superstar Live), Zach Grenier (The Good Wife, Deadwood), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Ladybird, Fences), Cailee Spaeny (Bad Times at the El Royale, On the Basis of Sex) and Alison Pill (American Horror Story: Cult, Snowpiercer) have come on board as the series’ stars.
“In Devs, a young computer engineer, Lily, investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.”
Offerman will play Forest, the CEO of Amaya, whose obsession is the covert work of the company’s development division.
Ha is Jamie, a gifted cyber security specialist, who is Lily’s former boyfriend.
Grenier will play Kenton. Terse, dry and dangerous , Kenton is the head of security at Amaya.
Henderson is Stewart, a cultured intellectual from another era and one of the top technical minds working in Amaya’s secret development division.
Spaeny will portray Lyndon, a young, brilliant, and stubborn employee who works in Amaya’s secret development division.
Pill will play Katie, a gifted quantum physicist tapped by Forest to be his second in command at Amaya.
The eight-episode limited series will premiere on FX in 2019.
