Jeff Daniels is heading back to television.
The star of Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird is set to play the lead and executive produce an upcoming new drama based on Philipp Meyer’s novel American Rust for Showtime.
The family drama, adapted by Oscar nominee Dan Futterman “will explore the tattered American dream through the eyes of complicated and compromised chief of police Del Harris (Daniels) in a Rust Belt town in southwest Pennsylvania. When the woman he truly loves sees her son accused of murder, Harris is forced to decide what he’s willing to do to protect him.”
“Jeff Daniels is a bona fide giant on stage and screen, and Dan Futterman is a special writer and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have them together at Showtime,” said Gary Levine, President of Entertainment Showtime Networks. “With vibrant characters caught in an unpredictable murder mystery, Rust will tell the relevant and touching human story of the corrosion of the American dream.”
A production start date has yet to be announced.
