{"id":11700,"date":"2019-08-01T05:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/jeff-daniels-star-new-showtime-straight-series-drama-rust\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:33:50","slug":"jeff-daniels-to-star-in-new-showtime-straight-to-series-drama-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/jeff-daniels-to-star-in-new-showtime-straight-to-series-drama-rust\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Daniels to Star in New Showtime Straight-to-Series Drama Rust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Daniels (<em>The Newsroom<\/em>, <em>Godless<\/em>, <em>The Looming Tower<\/em>) is set to star in and executive produce the new drama <em>Rust<\/em>, which has been given a straight-to-series order from Showtime.<\/p>\n<p>The project will see Daniels\u00a0reteam with Oscar nominee Dan Futterman (<i>Capote<\/i>).\u00a0Futterman will write multiple episodes of the series, which is co-produced with Platform One Media, headed by CEO Katie O\u2019Connell Marsh. It is based on Philipp Meyer\u2019s debut novel <i>American Rust<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div><i><em>Rust<\/em> <\/i>is a family drama that will explore the tattered American dream through the eyes of complicated and compromised chief of police Del Harris (Daniels) in a Rust Belt town in southwest Pennsylvania. When the woman he loves sees her son accused of murder, Harris is forced to decide what he&#8217;s willing to do to protect him.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cJeff Daniels is a bona fide giant on stage and screen, and Dan Futterman is a special writer and we couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to have them together at Showtime,\u201d said Gary Levine, co-president of entertainment at Showtime Networks. \u201cWith vibrant characters caught in an unpredictable murder mystery, <em>Rust<\/em> will tell the relevant and touching human story of the corrosion of the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom, Godless, The Looming Tower) is set to star in and executive produce the new drama Rust, which has been given a straight-to-series order from Showtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1717,166],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-jeff-daniels","tag-showtime","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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