Clooney’s TV comeback lands at streaming service
Actor George Clooney is all set to return to the television space with Catch-22, adaptation of Joseph Heller’s classic novel.
Clooney will star in and direct a six-episode, limited series for a leading streaming service, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The series landed at the streaming service following a bidding war that ensued when the development of the project was announced late in 2017.
This marks Clooney’s first series regular role in decades, since he left the hit series, ER, nearly two decades ago to carve out an extremely successful career as a film actor and filmmaker in Hollywood.
In the series based on Catch22, Clooney will star as Colonel Catcart, the role played by Martin Balsam in director Mike Nichols’ 1970 feature film adaptation of Heller’s novel.
Set in Italy during World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of Yossarian, a U.S. Air Force bombardier trying to fulfil his service requirements so that he can go home.
The novel explored the paradox of requirements where airmen who felt mentally unfit to fly were not obligated to do so, but anyone who applied to stop flying was sane enough to fly. ANI
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