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The political relationship between President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair is the focus of a movie for HBO penned by “Frost/Nixon” writer Peter Morgan. If “The Special Relationship” gets the go-ahead, Dennis Quaid will play President Clinton and Julianne Moore will portray Hillary Clinton, with “Frost/Nixon” star Michael Sheen as Blair. – from Reuters
David Chase is back at HBO. The scribe behind “The Sopranos” will develop “A Ribbon of Dreams,” a miniseries about the early days of Hollywood. The mini will follow the characters as they first work for D.W. Griffith and then eventually with marquee names such as John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis and Billy Wilder. It will track the growth of Hollywood from the age of silent Westerns to the golden age of talkies and onward. As the longform moves on to the latter part of the 20th century, the action will shift to the main characters’ offspring. Title comes from Orson Welles’ description of film as “a ribbon of dreams.” – from Variety
A show for the whole family…
HBO is hung up on “Hung.” The pay cable network has picked up the dark comedy pilot starring Thomas Jane to series. “Hung” stars Jane as Ray, a well-endowed struggling high school basketball coach who figures out a way to use his best asset. – from THR
Could Rome see a revival?
The premature cancelling of HBO/BBC’s Rome, has left it’s creator Bruce Heller with the only option of trying to get a big movie adaptation into production to finish off the series which was a critical and commercial success for the two seasons it ran. – From obsessedwithfilm.com
The creator of CBS’ red-hot procedural “The Mentalist” has unfinished business in Italy. Bruno Heller says he wants to produce a theatrical wrap-up to his critically beloved and prematurely canceled HBO drama “Rome.” – From thrfeed.com
Bruno Heller says he wants to produce a theatrical wrap-up to his critically beloved and prematurely canceled HBO drama “Rome.”
“There is talk of doing a movie version,” he said. “It’s moving along. It’s not there until it is there. I would love to round that show off.”
The lavish period drama ran for two seasons on HBO, which co-produced the series with the BBC. With the final season of “The Sopranos” as its lead-in, the first season was solidly rated, but high production costs presented the network with a tough call on the pickup. HBO opted for a second season to help get more value from its initial investment but not a third, effectively canceling the show in summer 2006 before the second season debuted the following January. The “Rome” sets were destroyed, and the actors were released from their contracts, making the decision all but irreversible.
- from THR