HBO has greenlit a limited series adaptation of the Jo Nesbø novel “The Son” with Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star and executive produce, Variety has learned.
“The Son” is described as a tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption. Gyllenhaal will executive produce under his Nine Stories Productions banner along with Riva Marker. Lenore Zion will serve as writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner. In addition, Denis Villeneuve is attached to direct and executive produce.
“Westworld” creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy will executive produce and serve as co-showrunners via Kilter Films with Athena Wickham of Kilter also executive producing. Bold Films’ David Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, Michel Litvak, and Svetlana Metkina also serve as executive producers with Nesbø and Niclas Salomonsson. Nine Stories Productions, Kilter Films, and Bold Films will produce in association with Warner Bros. Television.
“Jonah and Lisa are a formidable creative force and...
“The Son” is described as a tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption. Gyllenhaal will executive produce under his Nine Stories Productions banner along with Riva Marker. Lenore Zion will serve as writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner. In addition, Denis Villeneuve is attached to direct and executive produce.
“Westworld” creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy will executive produce and serve as co-showrunners via Kilter Films with Athena Wickham of Kilter also executive producing. Bold Films’ David Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, Michel Litvak, and Svetlana Metkina also serve as executive producers with Nesbø and Niclas Salomonsson. Nine Stories Productions, Kilter Films, and Bold Films will produce in association with Warner Bros. Television.
“Jonah and Lisa are a formidable creative force and...
- 10/20/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Jake Gyllenhaal will take a trip to Lake Success with a new HBO limited series. Gyllenhaal will star and executive produce the show, adapted from the novel by Gary Shteyngart. In Lake Success, the actor will play a narcissist who abandons his family to take a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend. This will mark Gyllenhaal’s […]
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- 4/15/2019
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Pretty soon, not even our TV screens will be safe from swooning over everyone's internet boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Spider-Man: Far From Home star has signed on to star in and executive produce a limited series for HBO. The show is titled Lake Success, based on Gary Shteyngart's book of the same name, and will be Gyllenhaal's first foray into TV. Since the network has recently been able to lure in A-list stars like Amy Adams for Sharp Objects, his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal for The Deuce, and basically the entire cast of Big Little Lies, it makes sense that Gyllenhaal would want to make his small screen debut in an HBO show.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lake Success will follow a "narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real-world hedge fund manager" named Barry Cohen (played by Gyllenhaal), who ends up escaping from his family and his past...
The Spider-Man: Far From Home star has signed on to star in and executive produce a limited series for HBO. The show is titled Lake Success, based on Gary Shteyngart's book of the same name, and will be Gyllenhaal's first foray into TV. Since the network has recently been able to lure in A-list stars like Amy Adams for Sharp Objects, his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal for The Deuce, and basically the entire cast of Big Little Lies, it makes sense that Gyllenhaal would want to make his small screen debut in an HBO show.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lake Success will follow a "narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real-world hedge fund manager" named Barry Cohen (played by Gyllenhaal), who ends up escaping from his family and his past...
- 4/14/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Believe it or not, Jake Gyllenhaal is yet to make his TV debut, well that is about to come to an end as the Mysterio actor is set to star in HBO’s limited series ‘Lake Success’.
Gyllenhaal will both star and executive produce alongside Riva Marker, which is based on Gary Shteyngart’s book.
The series follows a narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal) who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
The series is co-written by Shteyngart and ‘Watchmen’s’ Tom Spezialy who will also act as a show-runner.
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Gyllenhaal will both star and executive produce alongside Riva Marker, which is based on Gary Shteyngart’s book.
The series follows a narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal) who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
The series is co-written by Shteyngart and ‘Watchmen’s’ Tom Spezialy who will also act as a show-runner.
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- 4/12/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jake Gyllenhaal is joining his sister Maggie as part of the HBO family. According to Deadline, the Oscar-nominated actor is making the leap to prestige TV with a new limited series coming to the premium network, titled “Lake Success.”
“Lake Success” is based on the novel by Gary Shteyngart, who also co-writes the series with Tom Spezialy. The story follows a narcissistic hedge fund manager Barry Cohen, played by Gyllenhaal, who attempts to escape his family and the SEC by going on a cross-country bus trip to find an ex-girlfriend and try to rekindle the old romance.
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“Lake Success” is based on the novel by Gary Shteyngart, who also co-writes the series with Tom Spezialy. The story follows a narcissistic hedge fund manager Barry Cohen, played by Gyllenhaal, who attempts to escape his family and the SEC by going on a cross-country bus trip to find an ex-girlfriend and try to rekindle the old romance.
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- 4/12/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Another famous movie actor has apparently fallen on hard times, forcing them to take on a demeaning TV job to make a few extra bucks on the side. According to Variety, Jake Gyllenhaal is going from receiving Academy Award nominations to—ugh—HBO, and he’s going to star in a limited series based on Gary Shteyngart’s…...
- 4/11/2019
- by Sam Barsanti on News, shared by Sam Barsanti to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
We've seen many actors make the leap to television over the years, and it seems that Jake Gyllenhaal will be the latest to make the transition as he's set to star in an adaptation of Gary Shteyngart's "Lake Success" for HBO. This will mark Gyllenhaal's first starring role on television. Lake Success will revolve around Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal),…...
- 4/11/2019
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Jake Gyllenhaal is coming to television. The Oscar nominee is set to star in and produce “Lake Success,” a limited series for HBO based on the novel by Gary Shteyngart, with the author himself serving as co-writer and -showrunner alongside Tom Spezialy. It will be Gyllenhaal’s first time starring in a TV series. “Lake Success” follows Barry Cohen, a hedge-fund manager who leaves behind his wife and autistic son in New York as he embarks on a cross-country bus ride to track down his college girlfriend.
“Gary’s novel is a beautifully executed character study highlighting the depth of human contradiction and complication, set against the timely backdrop of America today,” said Gyllenhaal and co-executive producer Riva Marker in a joint statement. “We are thrilled to partner with HBO, who has consistently been home to some of the most exciting and acclaimed premium content over the past two decades.
“Gary’s novel is a beautifully executed character study highlighting the depth of human contradiction and complication, set against the timely backdrop of America today,” said Gyllenhaal and co-executive producer Riva Marker in a joint statement. “We are thrilled to partner with HBO, who has consistently been home to some of the most exciting and acclaimed premium content over the past two decades.
- 4/11/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Jake Gyllenhaal is taking a detour from the big screen by way of Lake Success, an HBO limited series based on Gary Shteyngart’s 2018 novel of the same name, our sister site Deadline reports.
Per the series’ official synopsis, Lake Success “centers on narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal), who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and...
Per the series’ official synopsis, Lake Success “centers on narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal), who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and...
- 4/11/2019
- TVLine.com
HBO has entered development on a limited series adaptation of the novel “Lake Success” led by Jake Gyllenhaal, the network announced on Thursday.
Gyllenhaal is attached to star in and executive produce the project, based on the 2018 book by Gary Shteyngart. The author will serve as co-writer and co-showrunner on the project with “The Leftovers” and “Watchmen” alum Tom Spezialy.
The series centers on a narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge-fund manager named Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal), who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
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Should the project move forward, “Lake...
Gyllenhaal is attached to star in and executive produce the project, based on the 2018 book by Gary Shteyngart. The author will serve as co-writer and co-showrunner on the project with “The Leftovers” and “Watchmen” alum Tom Spezialy.
The series centers on a narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge-fund manager named Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal), who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
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Should the project move forward, “Lake...
- 4/11/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
HBO has put in development Lake Success, a limited series based on Gary Shteyngart’s book, with Jake Gyllenhaal set to star and executive produce. The project, which marks Gyllenhaal’s TV acting debut, hails from Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker’s Nine Stories and Endeavor Content.
Co-written by Stheyngart and Tom Spezialy (Watchmen), who also co-showrun, Lake Success centers on narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal) who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
Gyllenhaal and Marker executive produce via Nine Stories.
“Gary’s novel is a beautifully executed character study highlighting the depth of human contradiction and complication,...
Co-written by Stheyngart and Tom Spezialy (Watchmen), who also co-showrun, Lake Success centers on narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal) who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
Gyllenhaal and Marker executive produce via Nine Stories.
“Gary’s novel is a beautifully executed character study highlighting the depth of human contradiction and complication,...
- 4/11/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Jake Gyllenhaal will star in and executive produce a limited series based on the Gary Shteyngart novel “Lake Success” that is currently in development at HBO, Variety has learned.
Should the project go to series, it would mark Gyllenhaal’s first leading role in a television series. He will executive produce along with Riva Marker through their Nine Stories production banner along with Endeavor Content. Shteyngart will serve as co-writer and co-showrunner on the series along with Tom Spezialy.
In the series, narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal) flees his family, his past, and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
“Gary’s novel is...
Should the project go to series, it would mark Gyllenhaal’s first leading role in a television series. He will executive produce along with Riva Marker through their Nine Stories production banner along with Endeavor Content. Shteyngart will serve as co-writer and co-showrunner on the series along with Tom Spezialy.
In the series, narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real world hedge fund manager Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal) flees his family, his past, and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, his brilliant wife Seema struggles to raise their autistic son and begins a tragicomic love affair of her own.
“Gary’s novel is...
- 4/11/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Add Jake Gyllenhaal to the list of A-list stars who are heading for television.
The actor will make his TV debut in HBO limited series Lake Success, which, in addition to starring in, he will also executive produce for the premium cable network.
Based on Gary Shteyngart's book Lake Success, the drama revolves around Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal), a narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real-world hedge fund manager who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan,...
The actor will make his TV debut in HBO limited series Lake Success, which, in addition to starring in, he will also executive produce for the premium cable network.
Based on Gary Shteyngart's book Lake Success, the drama revolves around Barry Cohen (Gyllenhaal), a narcissistic, self-deluded and hilariously divorced from the real-world hedge fund manager who flees his family, his past and the SEC on a cross-country bus ride in search of his college girlfriend and a last chance at romantic redemption. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan,...
- 4/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Early in Gary Shteyngart’s funny, frightening new novel, Seema — wife of Barry Cohen, a morally handicapped and wildly successful hedge fund manager — recalls her earliest impressions of him. “A man that rich couldn’t be stupid,” she’d thought. Now, as their life together verges on collapse, she wonders: “Was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?”
So starts a tale told in the run-up to the 2016 election of Donald Trump, as Cohen takes flight from real and perceived demons, on an Kerouac-ian/Odyssean cross-country Greyhound journey. As Lake Success maps his downward spiral,...
So starts a tale told in the run-up to the 2016 election of Donald Trump, as Cohen takes flight from real and perceived demons, on an Kerouac-ian/Odyssean cross-country Greyhound journey. As Lake Success maps his downward spiral,...
- 9/20/2018
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
It's been almost a year since it was first announced that Ben Stiller and writer Karl Gajdusek (Oblivion, November Man) were developing a television adaptation of the 2010 novel Super Sad True Love Story, and now Variety is reporting that Showtime has picked up the project. In addition to writing the scripts, Gajdusek will also executive produce with Stiller and author Gary Shteyngart, while Stiller... Read More...
- 1/26/2016
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
It’s been an awful long time coming – almost a year, in fact – though today Variety is reporting that Ben Stiller is finally making some headway with his small-screen rendition of Super Sad True Love Story.
Yes, remaining true to the old adage that true love never dies, Stiller will now take the reins of the project for Showtime, working from a script produced by Karl Gajdusek of Oblivion and Trespass fame. Pitched as a social satire, Super Sad True Love Story is based on the novel of the same name by Gary Shteyngart. Whisking viewers to a not-so-distant future where the American economy is on the brink of collapse, said Love Story revolves around Lenny Abramov and his relationship with an “impossibly cute Korean American woman” named Eunice Park.
Here’s the official logline lifted from Shteyngart’s acclaimed printed, bound media artifact:
In the near future, America is...
Yes, remaining true to the old adage that true love never dies, Stiller will now take the reins of the project for Showtime, working from a script produced by Karl Gajdusek of Oblivion and Trespass fame. Pitched as a social satire, Super Sad True Love Story is based on the novel of the same name by Gary Shteyngart. Whisking viewers to a not-so-distant future where the American economy is on the brink of collapse, said Love Story revolves around Lenny Abramov and his relationship with an “impossibly cute Korean American woman” named Eunice Park.
Here’s the official logline lifted from Shteyngart’s acclaimed printed, bound media artifact:
In the near future, America is...
- 1/26/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Showtime has picked up the rights to "Super Sad True Love Story," the upcoming TV series adaptation of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 novel of the same name.
Ben Stiller and Karl Gajdusek are teaming to executive produce the project which with the former directing and the latter writing the adaptation. The project marks Stiller's scripted television directorial debut.
The story is told through the diaries of Lenny Abramov and the online posts of Eunice, telling their love story against the backdrop of contemporary American dystopia including issues like social networking privacy, youth obsession and political value erosion.
Source: Variety...
Ben Stiller and Karl Gajdusek are teaming to executive produce the project which with the former directing and the latter writing the adaptation. The project marks Stiller's scripted television directorial debut.
The story is told through the diaries of Lenny Abramov and the online posts of Eunice, telling their love story against the backdrop of contemporary American dystopia including issues like social networking privacy, youth obsession and political value erosion.
Source: Variety...
- 1/26/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Time flies, and it was a year ago that Ben Stiller put his name down as the producer of the TV adaptation of Gary Shteyngart's best-selling novel "Super Sad True Love Story." Now twelve months later, he's agreeing to step behind the camera. Read More: New Posters And Promos For 'Zoolander 2' Make You Smell Like No. 2 Variety reports that Stiller will direct the project for Showtime, with Karl Gajdusek ("Oblivion," "Trespass") writing the scripts. Set in the near future, the satire follows a Russian immigrant and a Korean American who cross paths in a nation that is in the midst of a downward spiral. Here's the book synopsis: In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed,...
- 1/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Showtime is developing a television version of “Super Sad True Love Story” with Ben Stiller attached to direct, TheWrap has learned. The show will be based on the 2010 book of the same by Gary Shteyngart. The book is a satire of American materialism and commercialism, as told from the perspective of an unremarkable man named Leonard who falls in love with a Korean-American girl named Eunice. An epistolary novel, it centers around digital correspondence between Leonard and Eunice, set against the backdrop of dystopian future in which America is on the verge of an economic collapse. Also Read: 'Billions' Bows to 1.4 Million.
- 1/25/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Some pretty important people have already blurbed Sloane Crosley's upcoming novel, The Clasp. Gary Shteyngart said that it was one of those "rare deeply literary books that also features — a plot!" and Michael Chabon said he fell "so completely under the spell of its narrative tone." In Vulture's exclusive of The Clasp's book trailer, actress Amanda Seyfried shares her thoughts from reading those blurbs on the back cover. We know that gets you through college, but it won't fly in book club! The Clasp arrives in bookstores October 6.
- 8/10/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
It seems we’re not quite ready to let go of our near-future dystopian society-set television show obsession – or at least, that’s what Media Rights Capital is hoping, as it rolls the dice on its next project. The independent studio that has been enjoying great success with their Netflix series, House Of Cards, is in late development with Super Sad True Love Story – an episodic adaptation of Gary Shteyngart’s award-winning third novel.
The tale – set in a near-future, dystopian New York – follows the complex relationship between Lenny Abramov and Eunice Park. Lenny is a middle-class, middle-management kind of guy, whose perspective has not progressed at the same pace as society. Eunice is a young Korean-American woman struggling with the disparity between the materialism encouraged by society and the more conservative expectations of her traditional Korean family. The story is structured in alternating perspectives between the two characters, as...
The tale – set in a near-future, dystopian New York – follows the complex relationship between Lenny Abramov and Eunice Park. Lenny is a middle-class, middle-management kind of guy, whose perspective has not progressed at the same pace as society. Eunice is a young Korean-American woman struggling with the disparity between the materialism encouraged by society and the more conservative expectations of her traditional Korean family. The story is structured in alternating perspectives between the two characters, as...
- 2/12/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Media Rights Capital, the company behind Netflix's House of Cards, is looking to Ben Stiller for its next series. The independent studio is in late development and already exploring casting ahead of a series order for an adaptation of Gary Shteyngart's best-selling novel Super Sad True Love Story, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Based on Shteyngart's award-winning novel (New York Times notable book of the year, Salon book award, etc.), Super Sad True Love Story is a one-hour dramedy set in the near-future that explores the unlikely relationship between a bookish man stuck in a
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- 2/10/2015
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"I hate that my friend always looks so good in her Instagram photos." "Facebook elevates social nicety to an art form." "As soon as you hit 1,000 likes or views, it grips you - it's become something more." If any of this sounds kind of familiar, you'll really enjoy watching a couple of comics and filmmakers commenting on the fakability of Facebook, the laziness of online dating, what happens when Twitter becomes your boyfriend, and the habit of Instagraming food. The Nfb and the Guardian launched "The Seven Digital Deadly Sins," an interactive documentary divided into a clickable map of the seven deadly sins, with brief activities and articles grouped topically according to sin (Lust, Sloth, Wrath, Pride, Gluttony, Greed, and Envy). The doc features appearances from singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, comic Mary Walsh, novelist Gary Shteyngart, comic Josie Long, Bill Bailey, writer and filmmaker Jon Ronson and comic Ophira Eisenberg. Here's an.
- 6/9/2014
- by Taylor Lindsay
- Indiewire
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