Mark Ruffalo-Starring 'Task' HBO Series Filming In Delco Next Week

EDGMONT TOWNSHIP, PA — The production of HBO's spiritual successor to the hit "Mare of Easttown" will keep filming in Delaware County, closing a road next week overnight.

According to PennDOT, HBO's "Task," which stars Mark Ruffalo, will be filming overnight in Edgmont Township next week.

PennDOT said production will close a portion of Gradyville Road in Edgmont Township Wednesday, May 1 to Thursday, May 2.

The road will closed from 3 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning between Delchester and Providence roads, PennDOT said.

During the closure, motorists will be directed to use Providence Road, Route 3 (West Chester Pike), and Delchester Road.

Drivers are advised to allow extra time when traveling near the work area because backups and delays will occur.

All scheduled activities are weather dependent.

HBO will complete this project under a PennDOT Highway Occupancy Permit.

"Task" is a follow-up and quasi sequel to the hit series "Mare of Easttown."

Crews will be filming "Task" Thursday through Saturday this week on Beaver Dam Road in Chadds Ford.

Filming already took place in Ridley Township in early March, in Aston in mid-March, and in Upper Chichester Tuesday and Wednesday.

"Task" appears to be a spiritual successor to the hit series "Mare of Easttown," which filmed in and around Delaware County and garnered several awards.

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Ruffalo said in an interview with Deadline that he will be playing a "damaged" FBI agent in "Task," and said his character and Winslet's character from "Mare" could run into one another in the new series.

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Ingelsby in 2021 said he was open to a sequel to the series, but little information about a follow-up came out until recently.

He said to follow up on the first season, he would want to ensure a new "story honors the first chapter and does things an audience will appreciate" to move forward with a new chapter of "Mare of Easttown."

Ruffalo is previously starred in another Delaware-County-set production in 2014's "Foxcatcher." Ruffalo played wrestler Dave Schultz, who was killed by John Eleuthère du Pont at du Pont's farm in Newtown Square in 1996.