Showtime is developing a new "inside show business" TV series about 1990s Hollywood culture from George Clooney and Bennett Miller.
NewsAnd once more, Hollywood’s biggest creative names move to the small screen—if at least in producing roles. And what better subject could there be for a new series from the unofficial King of Hollywood than a show all about show business’ inside baseball?! Navel-gazing, at its best, I daresay.
Set in the heady world of Tinsletown corporate culture, George Clooney’s The Studio will chronicle an early 1990s studio falling into the corporate conglomerate abyss of buy-outs and mergers. Starring two friends who run the studio, they’ll see their Hollywood excess run headlong into suited synergy, as well as the typical power plays associated with showbiz dramas.
The series is set to be executive produced by George Clooney, Peter Tolan, and Bennett Miller, as well as by Sony Pictures TV, Tolan’s Fedora Entertainment, and Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures. The pilot is set to be written by Tolan and directed Miller, the latter of whom has helmed Capote, Moneyball, and last year’s Foxcatcher. At the moment, it is only in “development” at Showtime, however as a major purchase for the network in competition with other premium giants, the project also apparently has a penalty deal attached, so I suspect we will see this come to fruition. Who knows, maybe they can cast someone as a young and struggling Clooney pre-ER on the series once it gets the full greenlight?
