AMC is reportedly eyeing a six-episode TV series version of George Clooney’s film “Good Night, and Good Luck” which his Smokehouse Pictures will produce.
A writers room has been opened to develop a serialized version of the movie with the project in the development stage.
Clooney, David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., Frank Langella, Tate Donovan and Ray Wise starred in the original which takes its name from the expression that famed newsman Edward R. Murrow used when he signed off the air.
The series finds its inspiration in the newsmen and women who worked alongside Edward R. Murrow amid a post-war climate of fear and hysteria and follows Sy Steingartner, a young cameraman for Murrow’s “See It Now” who is forced to juggle his admiration for Murrow with his own ambition.
Jonathan Glatzer (“Better Call Saul,” “Succession”) is set to serve as showrunner and executive produce alongside Clooney and Grant Heslov, with the latter to direct the pilot.
Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, Haley Jones, Jeff Skoll and Miura Kite would also executive produce. Made on a $7 million budget, the original film grossed nearly $55 million at the worldwide box office and scored critical acclaim and multiple Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
Source: THR
