Famed “Ad Astra” and “The Lost City of Z” filmmaker James Gray is set to turn the life of celebrated and controversial author Norman Mailer into Gray’s first full television series.
Based on J. Michael Lennon’s biography, the series will tell the story of the rebel intellectual, who documented the journey America took from World War II to WiFi and wrote such books as “The Executioner’s Song,” “The Naked and the Dead,” “Why Are We in Vietnam?,” “The Deer Park,” “Barbary Shore” and “An American Dream”.
Along the way he engaged in a very publicly controversial life – engaging in violent confrontations with literary lions like Truman Capote and Gore Vidal, along with clashes with political icons, cops, feminists and sports legends. He also had six volatile marriages and numerous mistresses.
The aim is for a no-holds-barred intimate chronicle of Mailer’s life which helped shape the American dialogue for over half a century. The late Mailer’s son John Buffalo Mailer is teaming with Gray on the project with both to executive produce along with Rudy Langlais, Martin Tuchman and Jennifer Gelfer.
Source: Deadline
