TV Time for a Coppola

Looks like a new Wes Anderson film isn’t happening anytime soon!

Jason Schwartzman is set to star in an HBO comedy pilot called Bored to Death.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, he’ll play a a struggling thirtysomething writer with a drinking problem in Brooklyn who, following a painful breakup with his girlfriend, decides to emulate his heroes from the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. He takes out an ad pretending to be a private detective and starts taking cases — solving some and making others worse.

If the show was to get picked up by HBO for a series, would you watch?

HBO needs a hit!

Their former powerhouse Sunday nights are dead.

[Image via WENN.]