Tag: HBO limited series

  • Benedict Cumberbatch to play poisoned Soviet spy in HBO series ‘Londongrad’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: British star Benedict Cumberbatch will star in an upcoming HBO limited series, titled “Londongrad”.

    Based on Alan Cowell’s book “The Terminal Spy”, the show will feature Cumberbatch as former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned with Polonium-210 in 2006.

    Cumberbatch will also executive produce the series under his SunnyMarch production banner, reported Variety.

    Litvinenko, who worked in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as an organized crime officer, fled to London in 2000.

    He became a writer, journalist and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

    The former KGB spy was mysteriously poisoned in London in 2006.

    Twenty-two days after his hospitalisation, he had succumbed to the radioactive isotope polonium-210.

    Bryan Fogel will direct the show with David Scarpa adapting Cowell’s book for the small screen.

    The two will also serve as executive producers alongside Len Amato, Adam Ackland and Claire Marshall.

    Cumberbatch currently stars in filmmaker Jane Campion’s acclaimed Netflix feature film “Power of the Dog”.

    The actor will next reprise his Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) role of Doctor Strange in “Spiderman: Far From Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”.

  • Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain’s HBO series ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ to debut in September

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: HBO’s upcoming limited series “Scenes From a Marriage”, starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in the lead, will premiere on September 12.

    The show is an official adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic 1973 miniseries of the same title, HBO said in a press release.

    Written and directed by “The Affair” co-creator Hagai Levi, the show will re-examine “the dilemmas probed by the original”.

    The five-episode limited series explores love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage, and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple.

    It follows Mira (Chastain), a confident, ambitious tech executive left unfulfilled by her marriage, and Jonathan (Isaac), a cerebral and accommodating philosophy professor desperate to keep their relationship intact.

    Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Endeavor Content have produced the limited series.

    Chastain and Isaac, who previously co-starred in 2014’s crime drama “A Most Violent Year”, also serve as executive producers alongside Levi, Ellenberg, Lars Blomgren, Amy Herzog, Daniel Bergman, and M Blair Breard.

    “Scenes From a Marriage” will also feature actors Sunita Mani and Corey Stoll in pivotal roles.