HBO has given a greenlight to six-hour miniseries “Lewis and Clark” and added Matthias Schoenaerts to star with Casey Affleck, the premium cable network announced Friday.
Production will begin in the summer with Affleck in the role of Meriwether Lewis and Schoenaerts as William Clark, telling the story of America’s first contact with the land and native tribes of the country west of the Mississippi River.
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The miniseries is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Tim Kelly and Adam Leipzig.
Production will begin in the summer with Affleck in the role of Meriwether Lewis and Schoenaerts as William Clark, telling the story of America’s first contact with the land and native tribes of the country west of the Mississippi River.
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The miniseries is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Tim Kelly and Adam Leipzig.
- 1/30/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Exclusive: That is a very fast rise. Less than a month after Brooke Runnette joined National Geographic Channel as VP Development and Special Projects, the former Discovery executive and Shark Week executive producer has been named president of National Geographic Television, the studio/documentary arm of the National Geographic Society. Runnette succeeds Maryanne Culpepper, who left in July after 16 years at Ngt and 15 months as president. Runnette will transition to her new role over the next month. One of her first assignments at NatGeo was to oversee the network’s high-profile spring 2013 series The 80’s: The Decade That Made Us, which she will continue to executive produce. At Ngt, Runnette will oversee the development and production of series, special events and live programming, reporting to John Fahey, National Geographic Society chairman and CEO. Fahey has been shaking up the upper ranks at the 124-year-old nonprofit scientific and educational institution in...
- 11/26/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
National Geographic and Image Nation are consolidating their partnership with Hyde Park/Image Nation to finance and produce a wide array of National Geographic themed entertainment projects designed for global distribution. Hyde Park will be the managing partner, and the venture will develop feature films, documentaries, and television series designed to entertain and inspire family audiences around the world.
“We like Hyde Park’s approach to the business, their growth and success in Asia, and the fact that Ashok and his team are already working closely with our partner, Image Nation,” said Tim Kelly, President of National Geographic Society. ”This partnership makes sense from all angles, and by folding our current feature film effort into this new venture, we will be able to pursue bigger, more ambitious projects and expand into growing markets like India and China.”
Image Nation Abu Dhabi.s Chairman Mohamed Al Mubarak commented, .This venture will...
“We like Hyde Park’s approach to the business, their growth and success in Asia, and the fact that Ashok and his team are already working closely with our partner, Image Nation,” said Tim Kelly, President of National Geographic Society. ”This partnership makes sense from all angles, and by folding our current feature film effort into this new venture, we will be able to pursue bigger, more ambitious projects and expand into growing markets like India and China.”
Image Nation Abu Dhabi.s Chairman Mohamed Al Mubarak commented, .This venture will...
- 12/22/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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