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PURITY (SHOWTIME)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
6/1/16 - 8/6/18
STATUS:
previously in development (2017-2018 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
script
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
20-episode/two-season order rescinded on 8/6/18
DESCRIPTION:
(from Showtime's press release, June 2016) SHOWTIME announced the pick-up of the new limited series PURITY, based on the novel of the same name from best-selling author Jonathan Franzen, and starring and executive produced by internationally-acclaimed actor Daniel Craig. Todd Field (Little Children, In the Bedroom) will write, direct and executive produce, along with executive producers Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, David Hare and Jonathan Franzen. Hare and Franzen will also serve as writers on the series. Field will direct every episode. PURITY will be a 20-episode limited series set to air over the course of two years on SHOWTIME. Production will begin in 2017. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President and CEO, Showtime Networks Inc. PURITY is a morally complex story of youthful idealism, extreme loyalty and cold-blooded murder. Jonathan Franzen's intricately plotted novel is populated by characters both hungry for the truth and desperate to hide it. From STASI offspring to Oakland anarchists, Franzen tracks his characters' landscapes as varied as East Berlin, the Bolivian jungle, East Harlem walk-ups, and the California Redwoods. PURITY is at once supremely ambitious in scope and intensely intimate in its treatment of character - a decades-spanning tragicomedy that builds to a contemporary climax.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Daniel Craig
CREW INFORMATION:
· Daniel Craig as EP
· David Hare as EP
· Eli Bush as EP
· Jonathan Franzen as BOOK/EP
· Scott Rudin as EP
· Todd Field as CRTR/EP/DIR (Pilot)
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· no information is available