See Oscar Isaac in Trailer For SHOW ME A HERO, a New HBO Miniseries From THE WIRE Creator

The Wire creator David Simon is back with a new HBO project that explores the politics of trying to affect major change in a big city. It's called Show Me A Hero, and it stars Oscar Isaac as the real life Yonkers, New York Mayor who is forced to comply with a federal mandate to build low-income housing in his city. It may sound a little dry, but Simon has proven himself more than capable of taking mundane aspects of city life and showing them through the eyes of multiple groups of people — that's a huge part of what made The Wire so brilliant.

Show Me A Hero, which has a hell of a cast alongside Isaac, hits HBO on August 16th.

From creator David Simon (‘Treme’ and ‘The Wire’) and director Paul Haggis (‘Crash’), and based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin, this six-part miniseries explores notions of home, race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists and ordinary citizens in Yonkers, NY.

In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor (Oscar Isaac) of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.

In addition to Oscar Isaac, ‘Show Me a Hero’ stars Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, Bob Balaban and Jim Belushi. Directed by Paul Haggis; written by David Simon and William F. Zorzi; executive produced by David Simon, Nina K. Noble, Paul Haggis, Gail Mutrux and William F. Zorzi.