Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill and William Monahan are teaming on a limited series that is set to tell the complicated story of Hollywood fixer Sidney Korshak and Lew Wasserman, the MCA chairman who was the most powerful man in Hollywood. Hill will play Korshak and Monahan will create the series.
The series is set to be shopped and the aim is for it to have the epic sweep of Scorsese films like The Irishman and The Departed. For those unaware, Wasserman was the visionary who in the 1940s liberated actors from film studio control by creating the modern talent agency, and then balanced both lines until the government made him choose and Wasserman shed talent representation for producing.
The premise sounds incredibly intriguing and will be fully onboard upon the release.