HBO has announced that a new miniseries will dramatically profile the election of Donald Trump to POTUS, by the same creative team that produced Game Change, which chronicled Sarah Palin's rise and fall during the 2008 election.
From Deadline:
Jay Roach is on board to direct and executive produce, with Playtone’s Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman executive producing. The trio also worked together on the Emmy-winning 2012 HBO film Game Change, about the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain — which, like Trump, featured an outsider and media star in VP candidate Sarah Palin.
The Trump miniseries will be based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s upcoming third installment of their Game Change series, which will be published by Penguin Press.
Halperin and Heilemann’s 2010 bestseller Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, was adapted into an HBO movie executive produced by Goetzman and Hanks, directed and executive produced by Roach, and starring Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris. It went on to win five Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries or Movie.
The big question now is who will play Donald Trump? Since his persona has almost become a parody of itself at this point, the only option for HBO to make any significant artistic gains would be to hire an actor dedicated to playing Trump the man, not Trump the caricature. Despite the obvious bias, or perhaps because of it, actress Julianne Moore earned a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of the left's favorite punching bag at the time, Sarah Palin.
President of HBO Films, Len Amato, expressed delight to see the team back together.
“We are thrilled to continue our relationship with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, whose work on their bestselling book Game Change set the bar for political reporting and storytelling inside a presidential campaign,” said Amato. “Reuniting Game Change director and executive producer Jay Roach and Playtone producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman with Mark and John for a project based on their upcoming book promises to vividly capture the most unique and impactful event in modern American politics.”
We're sure it will be a fair and balanced dramatization of Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton, with no political bias at all.




