Jeff Daniels Set To Star in A MAN IN FULL Limited Series For Netflix
Jeff Daniels has landed the lead role in a new project being produced for Netflix titled A Man in Full. This is a six-episode limited series that’s based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel.
A Man In Full revolves around Charlie Croker (Daniels), “a polarizing and robust Atlanta real estate mogul who faces sudden bankruptcy. Crude, rude and irrepressible, Charlie defends his empire against all takers. At any cost.”
This sounds like the perfect type of character for Daniels to play and there’s no doubt that he’s going to play this part incredibly well. David E. Kelley and Regina King are developing the series with Kelley serving as writer, executive producer and showrunner. King will direct three of the episodes and executive produce.
Here’s the full description of the story from the book, which offers more details:
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia — a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000 acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt.
Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system.
And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek “the Canon” Fanon, a homegrown product of the city’s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city’s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.
Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates — Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Croker’s deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious and telling novel America has seen in ages — Tom Wolfe’s most outstanding achievement to date.
Source: Deadline