Dakota Fanning to Star in Showtime Drama Series RIPLEY
She joins Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Andrew Scott who stars in the title role of Tom Ripley.by TV News Desk
SHOWTIME has announced that Dakota Fanning (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) will join the new drama series RIPLEY, based on Patricia Highsmith s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels. Fanning will play Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who suspects darker motives underlie Tom s affability. She joins Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Sherlock) who stars in the title role of Tom Ripley, and Johnny Flynn (Beast) as Dickie Greenleaf. Oscar and Golden Globe® winner and Emmy® nominee Steven Zaillian (Schindler s List, The Night Of) will write and direct the entire first season. Production will start later this year in Italy. The announcement was made by Amy Israel, Executive Vice President, Scripted Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.
Michelle Pfeiffer would star as Betty Ford in the anthology series “
The First Lady.” The network also announced that Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier would direct and executive produce the project, which also stars and is executive produced by Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Viola Davis, who will play former first lady Michelle Obama.
The description reads, “The First Lady is a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House.”
Produced by Showtime and Lionsgate Television, the series is executive produced by Oscar-winner Cathy Schulman, Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Andrew Wang, Jeff Gaspin, and Brad Kaplan, and created by author Aaron Cooley, who will write several of the episodes and executive produce. The announcement was made by Amy Israel, Executive Vice President, Scripted Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.
Michelle Pfeiffer Set To Bring Betty Ford To The Small Screen In The First Lady
Variety s Joe Otterson, the 62-year-old star of films like
Batman Returns, Scarface and
The Fabulous Baker Boys is set to bring Betty Ford the wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford to the small screen in the forthcoming series,
The First Lady.
Pfeiffer joins a cast that will also feature Emmy, Oscar and Tony-winning actress Viola Davis as Michelle Obama.
Variety further reported that
The Undoing director Susanne Bier has come to terms on a deal to direct and executive produce the anthology series, which is a joint production of Showtime and Lionsgate Television.