TRUE DETECTIVE Director to Take on THE ALIENIST
True Detective season one director Cary Fukunaga is set to direct and executive produce a new drama series called The Alienist, which is based on the Caleb Carr thriller. Fukunaga does great work and is currently developing the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s IT. This new project he’s jumping on seems like it's a good fit for him.
The story is set in "Gilded Age New York, and it follows Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, who, with the help of newspaper reporter John Moore and police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, uses the emerging discipline of psychology to track down one of New York City’s first serial killers.’
The series is being written by Hossein Amini, and it sounds like it will be an intense and fascinating thriller. Paramount Television President Amy Powell said in a statement:
“The Alienist is a fascinating and distinctive, fast-paced psychological thriller that is wonderfully evocative of the unrivaled Gilded Age of New York City. Cary Fukunaga’s unique vision and ability to render compelling, distinctive and superbly atmospheric direction is the perfect voice for this television series. We are thrilled to have not only Cary’s expert direction, but also the creativity, imagination and storytelling abilities of the supremely talented Eric Roth and Hossein Amini.”
Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Rosalie Swedlin added:
“We are thrilled that Paramount has entrusted us and our brilliant creative dream team — Eric Roth, Hossein Amini, and Cary Fukunaga — to bring this much beloved, bestselling novel to the screen. The multi-episodic format will enable us to do justice to the complexity of Caleb Carr’s storytelling and his vivid and detailed portrait of late 19th century New York in all its splendor and grittiness.”
I’ll be looking forward to seeing how this develops.
Source: Variety