Jon Hamm To Star In Hollywood Blacklist Scripted Podcast ‘The Big Lie’ For Audible
deadline.comJon Hamm is to star as an FBI agent trying to shut down Salt of the Earth, the only movie named to the Hollywood Blacklist, in a new scripted podcast series.Audible has ordered The Big Lie, a seven-part audio drama series created by John Mankiewicz, a relative of Citizen Kane co-screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz.Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, Bradley Whitford, Lisa Edelstein, Giancarlo Esposito, David Strathairn also star.Mankiewicz, a co-exec producer on House of Cards and Bosch, will exec produce alongside Hamm.
It comes from a story by blacklisted Salt of the Earth producer Paul Jarrico, co-written by Jamie Napoli and directed by Aaron Lipstadt.
Fresh Produce Media produces.The Big Lie is set in 1950’s Hollywood at the height of the “Red Scare,” as a trio of outcast filmmakers try to make a movie that dramatized their pro-labor, pro-feminist beliefs while suffering a conspiracy of active sabotage efforts from the U.S.
government, the Hollywood studio system and Howard Hughes. Denounced on the floor of Congress, confronted with riots, shootings and arson, the cast and crew risked their lives to produce Salt of The Earth.Hamm plays FBI Agent Jack Bergin.Each episode features an original score by composer David Mansfield with sound design from Joshua Paul Johnson and Peter Bawiec.
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