Steve Carell's Succession
Jesse Armstrong’s (creator: Succession) next project is an untitled movie for HBO.
It follows four billionaire friends reuniting amid an ongoing international financial crisis:
Steve Carell
Jason Schwartzman
Cory Michael Smith
Ramy Youssef
If these friends are anything like The Roy family in Succession, “reuniting” will be the furthest thing from a picnic.
Although the tragicomedy tone of Succession felt unique, bolstered, of course, by the scale of the investment by HBO, Armstrong’s films have had iterations of this tone:
Downhill (2020)
Co-Writer
An adaptation of the fierce satire Force Majeure
The Day Shall Come (2019)
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Genre: Weaponized Comedy
In the Loop (2009)
Co-Writer
Like Veep but with more swearing and very very dry humor
With his knack for dissecting power dynamics and unraveling complex relationships with razor-sharp wit, Armstrong's next project promises to deliver another incisive, darkly comedic exploration of human frailty against the already precarious world of finance.
The film, which marks Armstrong’s directorial debut, is set to begin filming in Park City, Utah, later this month and is slated for a spring premiere.
