Matt Bomer is attached to star in and executive produce a series adaptation of the Thomas Mallon novel “Fellow Travelers” that is currently in development at Showtime, Variety has learned exclusively.
Ron Nyswaner is adapting the book for the screen and will also serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series. “Fellow Travelers” is described as a political thriller and epic love story that unfolds in the era of McCarthyism and resolves in the age of AIDS. It follow the intertwined lives and volatile romance of two very different men, Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller (Bomer) and Tim Kovacs, through purges, wars, protests, and plagues, overcoming obstacles in the world and in themselves.
Along with Bomer and Nyswaner, Michael Grandage will executive produce in addition to directing. Robbie Rogers will also be an executive producer on the project. Fremantle will produce.
Bomer currently stars in the HBO Max-dc series “Doom Patrol...
Ron Nyswaner is adapting the book for the screen and will also serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series. “Fellow Travelers” is described as a political thriller and epic love story that unfolds in the era of McCarthyism and resolves in the age of AIDS. It follow the intertwined lives and volatile romance of two very different men, Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller (Bomer) and Tim Kovacs, through purges, wars, protests, and plagues, overcoming obstacles in the world and in themselves.
Along with Bomer and Nyswaner, Michael Grandage will executive produce in addition to directing. Robbie Rogers will also be an executive producer on the project. Fremantle will produce.
Bomer currently stars in the HBO Max-dc series “Doom Patrol...
- 9/7/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Prolific duo Greg Berlanti & Sarah Schechter have set their Berlanti/Schechter Films banner to an exclusive first-look feature film deal at Netflix.
The film pact with Netflix comes two and a half years before Berlanti’s mega overall deal with Warner Bros. Television — valued at as much as $400 million — is slated to end. It signals that the most prolific producer in the history of television, who had renewed his TV studio deal with the previous Warner Media/Warner Bros TV regime, could be in play.
Berlanti, who broke his own record for most series on television at the same time multiple times, currently has 14 on-air series produced by his Berlanti Productions. That includes the popular Netflix drama You — picked up for a second and third season — and several CW shows that are popular draws on Netflix including Riverdale, All American and The Flash. His company also produced the streamer’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
The film pact with Netflix comes two and a half years before Berlanti’s mega overall deal with Warner Bros. Television — valued at as much as $400 million — is slated to end. It signals that the most prolific producer in the history of television, who had renewed his TV studio deal with the previous Warner Media/Warner Bros TV regime, could be in play.
Berlanti, who broke his own record for most series on television at the same time multiple times, currently has 14 on-air series produced by his Berlanti Productions. That includes the popular Netflix drama You — picked up for a second and third season — and several CW shows that are popular draws on Netflix including Riverdale, All American and The Flash. His company also produced the streamer’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
- 7/6/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Timewasters and star Kadiff Kirwan has joined Harry Styles, Emma Corin and David Dawson in Amazon’s feature drama My Policeman, which is currently in production in the UK.
The story takes place in the late 1990s, when the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick (Rupert Everett) into Marion and Tom’s home, triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between the younger Tom (Harry Styles) and Patrick (David Dawson) at a time when homosexuality was illegal. The Crown star Corrin plays the younger Marion, while Linus Roache and Gina McKee also star.
Based on the novel of the same name by Bethan Roberts, the movie is being produced by Greg Berlanti, Robbie Rogers and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti-Schechter Films, in association with Cora Palfrey and Phillip Herd at Independent Film Company and Mgc. Michael Grandage is directing from an adapted screenplay by Ron Nyswaner.
The story takes place in the late 1990s, when the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick (Rupert Everett) into Marion and Tom’s home, triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between the younger Tom (Harry Styles) and Patrick (David Dawson) at a time when homosexuality was illegal. The Crown star Corrin plays the younger Marion, while Linus Roache and Gina McKee also star.
Based on the novel of the same name by Bethan Roberts, the movie is being produced by Greg Berlanti, Robbie Rogers and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti-Schechter Films, in association with Cora Palfrey and Phillip Herd at Independent Film Company and Mgc. Michael Grandage is directing from an adapted screenplay by Ron Nyswaner.
- 6/2/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Harry Styles and Emma Corrin were spotted together on the set of My Policeman in Brighton, England. The film is based on Bethan Roberts’s 2012 novel and focuses on a married couple, Marion and Tom, played by Styles and Corrin. The film shows the couple falling in love in the 1950s, before Patrick, a curator […]
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- 5/14/2021
- by Sarah Huffman
- Uinterview
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