After months of negotiations and deal-making, Showtime has signed an agreement for a 20 - episode order for Purity , limited series starring the star of James Bond, Daniel Craig and produced by Todd Field and Scott Rudin.
The project, based on the book of the same name by author Jonathan Franzen, has moved the cable market since February with Showtime being the chain that finally bought it and has now made a custom series.
Field direct lso 20 episodes, which will co-write with Franzen and David Hare (The Hours, The Reader). Craig, Field, Rudin, Franzen, Hare and EII Bush will executive produce.
The series split those 20 episodes in two installments, the first of which will be in 2017 and the second in 2018.
Purity is a morally complex story of youthful idealism, loyalty and extreme cold -blooded murder, with so hungry for truth as desperate to hide characters. Of the descendants of the STASI to Oakland anarchists, Franzen monitors the landscapes of his characters from East Berlin and the Bolivian jungle to reach the East Harlem and the redwoods of California in a tragicomedy spanning several decades that are built on a contemporary climax. The book, published last September, focuses on focuses on Pip , a young American who does not know who he is, and Andreas, a charismatic German provocateur, the role of Craig who runs an organization based inSouth America that traffics with all the secrets the world, and where Pip gets an internship in search of his identity.
"The purity of Jonathan Franzen is an American epic novel that pulsates with the energy of a thriller , " said President and CEO of Showtime Networks David Nevins ."His grip and timely story has attracted a powerful team - Todd Field, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, David Hare, along with Franzen himself, and the brilliant Daniel Craig, which has been perfectly elegidoa as the charismatic and mysterious' Andreas Wolf".
The collaboration between Craig and Rudin is derived from their previous work together on the girl with the dragon tattoo and production of Broadway Betrayed by Mike Nichols. Rudin had worked with Field on a script that was created for HBO but ultimately unsuccessful.
