Anthony Hopkins Could Find The Corrections

For Noah Baumbach and HBOHot about the heels of news that James Gandolfini is establishing a brand new series on premium US cable outlet Cinemax comes word that another high-profile project - both when it comes to its source material and names involved - is bubbling away in the funnel, with Anthony Hopkins thinking about leading off an adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections. Greenberg author/director Noah Baumbach is among the other primary driving forces behind the project, searching to show Franzen's acclaimed 2001 tome right into a series. It nabbed all of the honours called the subject of lots of literary buzz if this showed up, and it is the chronicle from the tests and hardships of the seniors couple as well as their three grown children across several decades. To date, Hopkins only has expressed a pursuit: there is no offer place. But when he did sign up, he'd be playing family mind Alfred, a guy whose own mind (in other words, his brain) is starting to fail him. Scott Rudin, that has labored with Baumbach on the kind of Greenberg and Margot in the Wedding, is onto produce and based on Deadline, Cinemax is near to ordering an airplane pilot according to Baumbach's script, co-written with Franzen. We are able to begin to see the appeal for that funnel - it may be another complex, multilayered family drama like among HBO's earlier hits, Six Ft Under...