HBO developing new spy series tentatively titled REDS

HBO has a new period drama series, tentatively titled Reds, in the works about a Russian spy living in the US. The project is from writer-director Martyn Burke (Pirates of Silicon Valley) and takes place in the 1980s. The story is  based on real-life events from Burke's early film career. "In the 80s, he was traveling the U.S. with a camera crew while making a documentary. However, unbeknownst to him,  the sound man on the crew was in reality a colonel in the Soviet KGB. The Soviet spy later set up his base of operations outside New York City while attempting to raise a family as an ordinary American citizen but was eventually caught."

Burke is currently editing the documentary Journalists Under Fire for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., about "the psychological stresses war journalists face while covering conflicts." Burke is also in the early stages on production for A Death In The Bullfighting Hills, co-produced by Sao Paulo's Bossa Nova Films. The feature is based on the true story of "the life and love of assassinated  Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio and his wife."

HBO knows how to produce the best series on cable TV in my opinion. I love spys and espionage related films and TV so this is going to be pretty cool.

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