It’s a disgrace George Clooney has but to direct one other movie as nice as 2005’s “Good Night, And Good Luck.” That movie, in regards to the 1953 battle between journalist Edward R. Murrow and US Senator Joseph McCarthy through the Red Scare, was a coup for Clooney on each degree. It acquired six Academy Awards noms that 12 months, together with Best Picture, and made almost $55 million on a $7 million finances. It’s simply one of many excessive marks of Clooney’s profession.
So, excellent news “Good Night, And Good Luck” followers: The Hollywood Reporter has a scoop that AMC will give Clooney’s movie the TV remedy. While the venture continues to be early in its script-to-series improvement, AMC eyes it as a six-episode restricted collection. And as showrunner? AMC faucets Jonathan Glatzer, whose credit embody “Better Call Saul” and HBO‘s “Succession,” to lead the series and serve as co-executive producer with Clooney and Grant Heslov, the film’s co-writer and actor.
With Glatzer on board, anticipate this upcoming collection to be a doozy. If the venture strikes past the event stage, Heslov may also stick round to direct the present’s pilot. As for different government producers, Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, and Haley Jones achieve this via 2929 Productions, and Jeff Skoll and Miura Kite are additionally on board via Participant.
AMC doesn’t envision the potential collection as a remake of Clooney’s movie, however an adjoining story to the unique. The collection follows Sy Steingartner, a cameraman on Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” TV program, as CBS executives push an anti-Communist Loyalty Oath on Murrow and his workers. Sy sees a possibility to excel in his profession, however provided that he betrays his mentor. Will he succumb to his amoral ambitions, or will his values, and Murrow’s, beat them out?
“As a massive fan of the movie, I didn’t want to copy it, or just do a facsimile of it,” Glatzer stated of the venture in a press release. “So, we’ve expanded the world to show how the division and hysteria of the times seeped into every aspect of daily life. I suppose it’s more of an origin story of where we are today.” No phrase but on if David Strathairn will reprise his position as Murrow for the collection. But don’t anticipate too lots of the authentic forged again for the collection, like Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., and Frank Langella. It seems to be like Glatzer needs this venture to be distinct from Clooney’s movie, even when it occupies the identical setting.
With any luck, “Good Night, And Good Luck” will get the greenlight at AMC. Clooney’s movie felt well timed in 2005, but it surely’s onerous not suppose this follow-up being simply as appropriate for the 2020s.