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Chris Messina to Star in HBO Max Pilot About 2019 College Admissions Scandal
Brett Weiner’s “Verbatim” anthology series will feature dialogue taken from real-life eventsReid Nakamura | December 11, 2020 @ 1:25 PM Last Updated: December 11, 2020 @ 2:11 PM
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Chris Messina has signed on to star in the HBO Max pilot “Verbatim,” TheWrap has confirmed.
The project, an anthology series from creator Brett Weiner and Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films, will tackle the 2019 college admissions scandal using dialogue taken directly from real-life events.
“Verbatim” is based on Weiner’s New York Times digital series of the same name, itself an adaptation of Weiner’s 2014 short film. The original project used dialogue lifted straight from a 2010 legal deposition from a real estate company’s lawsuit against the Ohio records department.