The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’s twenty-year journey to the screen may finally be coming to an end. A limited series adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
franchise’s Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman are also executive producing the project. It will be produced by Paramount Television, whose movie studio parent Paramount Picture owns the rights to the book, and CBS TV Studios in the first collaboration between the new corporate siblings at the merged ViacomCBS.
starring Anna Chlumsky for Showtime, based on Waldman’s book about “microdosing” with LSD. Peter Berg, Michael Lombardo and Elizabeth Rogers will executive produce via Film44. Also in the pipeline areinspired by the bestselling novel, andthe tragic story of the Oakland, Calif. art collective that caught fire, with 36 fatalities. is an epic tale of love, war and the birth of America’s comic book superhero obsession in big-band-era New York.
The 2000 novel, which has sold millions of copies around the world, has been credited for the legitimization of comic books as a serious literary genre, and was also the inspiration for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York’s exhibition “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.” “Ayelet and Michael are two of America’s pre-eminent writers,” said David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios. “From award-winning novels and non-fiction to their television and film collaborations, they have a remarkable body of work. We’re thrilled to have them on our incredibly talented roster.”
At CBS TV Studios, Chabon is executive producer/showrunner on the studio’s upcoming CBS All Access seriesalongside executive producers Kurtzman and Goldsman. Chabon will stay with the series, which has completed its first season, until he transitions full-time to showrunner ofsometime next year. He will remain creatively involved as an executive producer on if it is renewed for a second season as fully expected.
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