Following the success of his HBO limited series, Mare of Easttown, Brad Ingelsby had a feeling his next series could draw some strong star power for whatever that next series was. So when he delivered his script to HBO higher ups last year, it was Mark Ruffalo whose name kept crossing his mind to play FBI agent Tom Brandis in his next crime drama Task . The only thing was, HBO brass thought it would be a tall task to get the very busy movie star to sign on to another TV series.

“I think we were scared to go to Mark, because, HBO said he’s never going to do it,” Ingelsby tells Deadline.

Even with those tempered expectations, HBO sent the script to Ruffalo and soon after would meet up with Ingelsby and the shows main director Jeremiah Zagar to discuss the show and the character

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