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Rami Malek Buster Keaton Limited Series From Matt Reeves In The Works At Warner Bros Television
20.01.2023 - 04:27 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that Warner Bros. Television is developing a limited series about Buster Keaton which has Oscar and Emmy winner Rami Malek playing the vaudeville-turned-silent comedy movie star.
Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions, Malek and David Weddle are producing, and we understand that The Batman director is set to helm. Three-time Emmy winner Ted Cohen (Friends, Succession, Veep) is in negotiations to write and serve as an EP on the project. James Curtis’ Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life is being eyed as the source material for the series with negotiations underway by the studio to secure the book.
Daniel Pipski and Rafi Crohn from 6th & Idaho are also EPs.
The project is being primed to be shopped to streamers and networks. 6th & Idaho are under an overall deal at Warner Bros, as Deadline first told you. Reeves is also working on his Batman HBO Max spinoff series at Warners, The Penguin, with Colin Farrell reprising his web-handed villain from the movie.
Known for his deadpan expression, actor-director Keaton starred in such movies as The Playhouse, Cops, The Electric House, Sherlock Jr, The General among several others; the latter considered to be his masterpiece.
In The General, an engineer, after being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines. Steamboat Bill Jr. is known for being a nail biter action thriller with a brutal ending that sees Keaton being pulled through a storm, one random catastrophe after another.
Born into a vaudeville family, Keaton’s career waned after his inked with MGM and lost his artistic
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