Rami Malek Buster Keaton Limited Series From Matt Reeves In The Works At Warner Bros Television
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: 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.
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