Bryan Cranston will reprise Lyndon B. Johnson role on HBO
It's official! Bryan Cranston will indeed be bringing his Lyndon B. Johnson character to television.
We reported a month ago that Cranston and Steven Spielberg where in negotiations to bring the LBJ play, All the Way, to television (read here: http://bit.ly/1hKhixo ) and now it seems that the mini-series will be given the green light.
Bryan Cranston won a Tony playing the role on stage and now Cranston will reprise this role for an HBO Films version of All the Way, which will be scripted by playwright Robert Schenkkan.
Variety describes the play as;
A behind-the-scenes look at President Johnson’s tumultuous first year in office, “All the Way” follows Johnson as he takes the oath following President Kennedy’s assassination, copes with the escalation of the Vietnam War, and launches his landmark civil rights bill.
This is the next step of the process that began when Steven Spielberg and Amblin Television started to option the play. Amblin will produce the HBO film, along with Tale Told Productions and Moon Shot Entertainment, with Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank & Justin Falvey, Robert Schenkkan and Bryan Cranston as exec producers.
