Lance Black: Last News

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorWhat’s harder to work with when it comes to writing a limited series — true stories taken from real life, or the stuff of fiction? A panel of top writers debated the challenges of working with headline-driven and historical material during the final hour of Variety‘s Night in the Writers’ Room on June 9 at 1 Hotel in West Hollywood.“There’s a little bit of a tightrope-walk in a true story that you don’t necessarily have to walk in fiction,” said Dustin Lance Black, the writer-producer behind FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven.” He noted that the series, about the 1984 murder of a woman and her infant daughter in Salt Lake City, deals with three intertwined stories, one of which is fictional. “That one to me, I had a slightly easier time with.

Dustin Lance Black, the husband of champion diver Tom Daley, twisted a woman’s wrist “very hard” at a London nightclub, a court has been told today.

Tom Daley has admitted open water ‘freaks him out’ after completing a challenge for Comic Relief.The Olympic diver, 27, successfully completed an incredible challenge for Comic Relief where he was seen swimming, running, cycling and rowing across four days and raised over a million pounds in donations for the charity. However, the athlete made a surprising confession when quizzed by host Alesha Dixon and Paddy McGuinness about his time completing the challenge.

OLYMPIC gold medallist Tom Daley has been spotted on a 12-hour drinking session with his fellow Team GB athletes in London. The sporting star was joined by fellow divers Grace Reid, Jack Laugher, Matty Lee and professional dancer Danielle Peazer on the boozy night out.

Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones have joined a new FX/Hulu limited series on the LDS fundamentalist movement.Under the Banner of Heaven is based on Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction bestseller.The book follows a devout detective, whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.Garfield will star as Pyre, a Mormon who gets swayed against his faith due to his relationship with a suspected murderer. Opposite him, Edgar-Jones will play Brenda, a murdered faithful Mormon.The show is created by Dustin Lance Black, who originally tried to turn the book into a feature length film with Warner Bros a decade ago.

Angelique Jackson “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” director George C. Wolfe has set his return engagement with Netflix, directing “Rustin” for the streamer, and President Barack Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.The film tells the story of gay, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March on Washington.