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EXCLUSIVE: HBO group its directing squad for Season 2 of Task, and each are women. Georgie Banks-Davies (I Hate Suzie), Clare Kilner (House of nan Dragon) and Kitty Green (The Assistant) will subordinate returning head Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Task, The Gilded Age) to helm Season 2 of nan critically acclaimed crime play series. It’s presently successful pre-production connected nan 2nd season.
Season 2 stars returning Mark Ruffalo arsenic Tom Brandis, on pinch Mahershala Ali arsenic Eddie Barnes. Edgar Ramírez arsenic Miguel Contreras, Harry Melling arsenic Brennan Boylan, Adam Nagaitis arsenic Luke Clemmons and Aminah Nieves arsenic Nataly Zamora.
Created by Brad Ingelsby, nan first play of Task found Ruffalo’s Brandis forming a task unit to way down a unit of masked robbers, led by a working-class family man, that were carrying retired a bid of convulsive crimes successful nan Philadelphia area. In Season 2, Brandis takes nan helm of a caller task force, but nan deeper nan cognition runs, nan harder it is to show who’s nan target.
Ingelsby serves arsenic creator, writer, showrunner and executive producer. Paul Lee and Mark Roybal executive nutrient for wiip, on pinch Jeremiah Zagar, Richardson-Whitfield, Ruffalo, and Ron Schmidt. Nicole Jordan-Webber and Karen Wacker co-executive produce. Casting is by Bialy Thomas & Associates.
Richardson-Whitfield made Emmy history arsenic nan first Black female nominated for Outstanding Directing Drama Series for her penultimate section of nan last play of HBO and Adam McKay’s Winning Time: The Rise of nan Lakers Dynasty. Under a multi-year wide woody pinch HBO since 2020, Richardson-Whitfield continues to service arsenic executive shaper and head connected Season 2 of nan deed HBO drama, The Gilded Age. She’s repped by More/Medavoy Management, Kaplan-Stahler Agency, and Innovative Artists.
Banks-Davies is simply a BAFTA-award winning head known for her activity crossed respective critically acclaimed series, including Paper Girls, I Hate Suzie (her tv debut), and The Night Manager. She astir precocious directed play 2 of The Night Manager for BBC One and Amazon, starring Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman. Her movie activity includes nan short movie Garfield, which premiered to acclaim astatine nan 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Banks-Davies is repped by Independent Talent Group, Lark Management, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Kilner is simply a multi-award-winning filmmaker calved successful nan UK and raised successful Argentina. She directed and executive produced aggregate episodes of HBO’s House of nan Dragon. Most recently, she helmed episodes of Netflix’s Man On Fire, Amazon’s Fallout and nan play finale of Mosquito Coast for Apple, among others. On nan movie side, she helmed her first feature Janice Beard, starring Rhys Ifans, to captious acclaim, and went connected to nonstop How To Deal and The Wedding Date. Kilner is repped by head Ragna Nervi and Jennifer Good astatine Paradigm.
Green’s characteristic The Royal Hotel, starring Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick, premiered successful 2023 astatine Telluride and Toronto to captious acclaim. Her debut communicative feature, The Assistant, premiered astatine Telluride successful 2019 pinch Julia Garner starring. Her erstwhile activity includes Casting JonBenet that premiered astatine Sundance successful 2017 and sold to Netflix. Green collapsed retired pinch her debut film, 2013’s Ukraine is Not A Brothel. Her upcoming characteristic The Spacesuit. starring Vanessa Kirby and Lewis Pullman, was launched by Hanway Films astatine this year’s Cannes Market. Green is repped by UTA and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
