‘The Studio’ Creators React to Bill Hader’s Jonestown Series & Scorsese Reaction Memes

‘The Studio’ Creators React to Bill Hader’s Jonestown Series & Scorsese Reaction Memes

Plus, how they think Hader is reacting to their Jonestown plot in 'The Studio.'

'SNL' Alum Bill Hader Set to Drink the Kool-Aid

Save for his relationship with Ali Wong, Bill Hader has been relatively quiet since wrapping his stellar comedy Barry two years ago. Now, however, the SNL alum is plotting his next series--one strikingly similar to the project Martin Scorsese tried... Read more...

Bill Hader to co-write and hopefully star in Jonestown TV show

Who better than comedian Bill Hader to star as Jim Jones in a TV show about the cult leader and his doomed "agricultural project" in Guyana? Variety has learned exclusively that Hader and Daniel Zelman are currently developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the infamous events at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, a.k.a. — Read the rest The post Bill Hader to co-write and hopefully star in Jonestown TV show appeared first on Boin…

Kool-Aid, the Series, Is Happening

Bill Hader and Daniel Zelman are developing a series about the Jonestown massacre for HBO. If that sounds familiar, it may be because you watched the first episode of ‘The Studio.’

Bill Hader Is Developing an HBO Series on the Infamous Christian Cult Jonestown

Bill Hader might be trading dark comedy for just plain darkness. The Barry creator and Emmy-winning actor is co-developing a new HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre—a chilling chapter of American history where more than 900 members of a religious cult died in a mass murder-suicide under Jones’ direction. Hader is teaming up with producer Daniel Zelman (Bloodline), and if the project moves forward, he may also direct and s…

Jonestown Series From Bill Hader & Daniel Zelman In Development At HBO

A series about the Rev. Jim Jones, the charismatic cult leader behind the 1978 mass-murder suicide at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (aka Jonestown) in the Guyanese jungle, is in development at HBO, Deadline has confirmed. The project hails from Bill Hader, who also is being eyed to potentially star, and Daniel Zelman. Hader and Zelman […]