You know HBO's whole tagline, "It's not TV, it's HBO"? If they keep bringing on big name directors like this guy, that'll really be true. According to Deadline, 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen is developing a TV series for HBO, which is described as a drama — his first project for television ever.
Not much info is available about the project yet — as of now, it doesn't even have a title — but it's said to follow "a young African-American man’s experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems," and is being described as Six Degrees of Separation meets Shame.
So, a con artist hanging out with rich people on the Upper East Side who secretly harbored a massive sex addiction in the past? Am I close? I think I'm close. The project will also carry McQueen's "signature style of provocative filmmaking," which probably means a lot of beautiful wide shots of the NYC skyline and surrounding rivers. Color me intrigued.
World War Z co-writer Matthew Michael Carnahan and Russell Simmons will executive produce, and Oscar-winning producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman will produce. As the project is still in the early stages of development, casting is still underway.
