Showtime has closed a deal to develop a four-hour miniseries about the Cuban Missile Crisis based on James Blight and Janet M. Lang's "The Armageddon Letters".
That book draws on documents released under the Freedom of Information Act that deal with that two-week event in October 1962 that nearly incited a third World War. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro are all central characters in the mini-series.
Phil Alden Robinson ("Sneakers," "The Sum of All Fears") is onboard to write and direct, while Albert S. Ruddy, Mike Medavoy, Benjamin Anderson and Todd Martens will serve as executive producers.
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That book draws on documents released under the Freedom of Information Act that deal with that two-week event in October 1962 that nearly incited a third World War. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro are all central characters in the mini-series.
Phil Alden Robinson ("Sneakers," "The Sum of All Fears") is onboard to write and direct, while Albert S. Ruddy, Mike Medavoy, Benjamin Anderson and Todd Martens will serve as executive producers.
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- 4/6/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
As U.S.-Cuba relations continue to improve following President Barack Obama’s historic visit, Showtime will examine a period when they were at the lowest: during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The pay cable network has put in development a four-hour limited series based on the book The Armageddon Letters, by James Blight and Janet M. Lang. It will be produced by two-time Oscar winner Albert S. Ruddy (The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby) and Oscar nominee Mike Medavoy (Bl…...
- 4/5/2016
- Deadline TV
Showtime will develop a limited series that traces the buildup to the Cuban Missile Crisis, TheWrap has learned. The four-hour limited series is based on the book “The Armageddon Letters” by James Blight and Janet M. Lang. It is based on 43 actual documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. These documents chronicled the buildup to the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world teetered on the edge of total nuclear destruction. The story is of three leaders — President Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro — who built a war machine they almost couldn’t turn off. Also Read: Showtime Orders Comedy Pilot 'Mating'.
- 4/5/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Showtime may be heading to 1962. The network has finalized a deal to develop a miniseries about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Based on James Blight and Janet M. Lang's The Armageddon Letters, which draws on documents realized under the Freedom of Information Act, the project is being eyed as a four-hour limited series. The Cuban Missile Crisis spanned half of the month of October in 1962, nearly resulting in nuclear war. Central to the story are U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams and
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- 4/5/2016
- by Michael O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl (Cns) -- Virtual JFK, a new documentary from first-time director Koji Masutani, asks the question: what would President John F. Kennedy have done in the Vietnam war if he was not assassinated in 1963 and instead was re-elected in 1964? By combining resources such as newly declassified documents, archival footage, and testimony from administration officials in the Kennedy and Johnson era, Virtual JFK ponders what America would have been like if the 35th President lived to see another term.
Koji Masutani, who studied not filmmaking but international relations at Brown University, makes his first non-student directorial debut with the documentary. The film came about when he was looking to make a film and he came across two professors researching Kennedy's policies towards Vietnam. "What they do is that they put together something called Critical Oral History where they combine documents and scholars in a conference setting," Masutani said. "But...
Koji Masutani, who studied not filmmaking but international relations at Brown University, makes his first non-student directorial debut with the documentary. The film came about when he was looking to make a film and he came across two professors researching Kennedy's policies towards Vietnam. "What they do is that they put together something called Critical Oral History where they combine documents and scholars in a conference setting," Masutani said. "But...
- 10/29/2008
- icelebz.com
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