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.
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