Michael Shannon Joins Jessica Chastain in Director John Hillcoat's Limited Series GEORGE & TAMMY
Michael Shannon is set to join Jessica Chastain in the upcoming limited series, George & Tammy. The series comes from director John Hillcoat (The Road) and the story will focus on “the tempestuous marriage of C&W music couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette.”
The series is based on the book, The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George, which was written by the couple’s daughter, Georgette Jones.
Shannon and Chastain “will bring to life the union between a true country music power couple, whose relationship inspired songs such as ‘We’re Gonna Hold On’ and ‘Golden Ring.’ When daughter Georgette was born, she was treated as C&W music loyalty. The family was broken, however. Jones drank, and his marriage to Wynette dissolved six years later. This took a great toll on the couple and the daughter, who was just 4 when her parents split, and had her own problems before finding her own voice felt as an accomplished singer.”
Shannon and Chastain will also do their own singing in the series as they will do their best to capture the vocals of Jones and Wynette.
Steve Zahn also joined the series. He will play George Richey, “a songwriter, producer and mainstay of the Nashville country music community who married Wynette after she and Jones split up in 1975.”
The series was created by Abe Sylvia (Dead to Me) and he co-wrote the series with Bryan Goluboff, both of which are Executive Producing along with Andrew Lazar (American Sniper), Josh Brolin and Chastain. David C. Glasser, David Hutkin, Ron Burkle and Bob Yari are executive producing through 101 Studios (Yellowstone).
George & Tammy will premiere exclusively on Spectrum followed by a second window on Paramount+ and the Paramount Network.
Source: Deadline