British PM Johnson’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be made into a TV series.
"There are rare moments in history when leaders find their private lives uniquely connected to national events, where personal experience and official role collide in an unusual way," Fremantle chief operating officer Andrea Scrosati said in a statement.
"The last few months in the life of the U.K. Prime Minister clearly mark one of these moments," Scrosati added. Winterbottom, 59, is widely considered one of the busiest and most eclectic filmmakers in British cinema, having directed more than 30 feature-length films in the last 25 years, including the recent financial satire"Greed," starring frequent collaborator Steve Coogan.
He also directed three installments of the award-winning comedy series"The Trip," co-starring Coogan. "Michael Winterbottom is the ideal filmmaker to tell the story of the extraordinary events surrounding Boris Johnson’s new government and the Covid-19 pandemic, which has captured the attention of the world," co-producer Richard Brown said in a statement.
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