Kathryn Hahn Set to Play Joan Rivers in Limited Series THE COMEBACK GIRL at Showtime
WandaVision star Kathryn Hahn has signed on to star in the limited series The Comeback Girl at Showtime, where she will portray comedy legend Joan Rivers. In addition to starring for the Warner Bros. production, Hahn will executive produce, Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon) will direct and executive produce, and Cosmo Carlson will write and executive produce.
Carlson, a two-time Black List screenwriter (The Showrunner, Valedictorian), wrote The Comeback Girl as a spec script.
The logline for the series reads:
“Trailblazer. Adored. Cruel. Diva. Joan Rivers had a life like no other. At age 54, she was a superstar comedienne…and then it all fell apart. THE COMEBACK GIRL is the awe-inspiring untold story of how Joan Rivers persevered through near suicide and professional abyss to rebuild herself and her career to become a global icon.”
“Rivers began her run of iconic appearances on The Tonight Show in the mid-‘60s, which eventually led to her becoming Johnny Carson’s regular guest host on that show in the 1980s. The two had a bitter falling out in 1986 after she went to the nascent Fox network for her own show, called The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. In doing so, Rivers became the first woman to host a late-night talk show — but also Carson’s competition. He said he hadn’t heard the news from her, which hurt him, and he banned her from The Tonight Show.”
The Comeback Girl is primarily set in the aftermath of the cancellation of The Late Show, which coincided with Rivers’ husband (and Late Show producer) Edgar Rosenberg’s death by suicide.
Hahn is incredibly talented, and I can’t wait to see her transformed into Rivers.
via: Variety