By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Showtime’s long-gestating series adaptation of American Gigolo has been picked up to pilot with Jon Bernthal attached to star and produce.
The project hails from David Hollander (Ray Donovan) Paramount TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders Paramount TV originally joined forces with Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the film noir classic starring Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton, to explore a TV series adaptation in 2014.
The project was set up for development at Showtime in 2016 with Neil LaBute as writer. It has since gone through multiple incarnations.
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