Succession’s Jesse Armstrong has discovered his subsequent mission.
Armstrong is understood for creating Succession, the favored HBO collection starring Jeremy Robust, Kieran Culkin, and Sarah Snook. He has additionally labored on the screenplays for motion pictures reminiscent of 2009’s Within the Loop, 2010’s 4 Lions, 2019’s The Day Shall Come, and 2020’s Downhill.
Per Deadline, Armstrong is now working with government producer Frank Wealthy on a brand new HBO film that focuses on “4 mates who meet up through the turmoil of an ongoing worldwide monetary disaster.”
What else do we all know concerning the Succession creator’s HBO film?
Additional plot particulars stay below wraps. Manufacturing is anticipated to start in 2025.
Armstrong is writing the script for the film, which doesn’t but have a title. No casting has been introduced, although Deadline’s article notes that actors’ availabilities at the moment are being checked.
Succession premiered on HBO in June 2018. It ran for 4 seasons, with the collection finale airing in 2023. Robust, Culkin, and Snook respectively play Kendall, Roman, and Shiv Roy within the present, whereas the solid additionally contains Brian Cox as Logan Roy, Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch, Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans, Alan Ruck as Conor Roy, J. Smith-Cameron as Gerri Kellman, Peter Friedman as Frank Vernon, and extra.
Armstrong has received a variety of Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on Succession, together with Excellent Writing for a Drama Sequence in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023, and Excellent Drama Sequence in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Exterior of Succession, Armstrong co-created British comedy exhibits Peep Present (2003-2015) and Contemporary Meat (2011-2016) alongside Sam Bain. He has additionally written episodes of tv collection reminiscent of The Thick of It, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Dogface, and Black Mirror.
A launch date for Armstrong’s HBO film has not but been introduced by HBO.
