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[05/25/16 - 11:23 PM]
Development Update: Wednesday, May 25
Updates include: CBS orders new pilot for "Superior Donuts"; Jeffery Self to host MTV's "Scream After Dark"; and director Phillip Noyce bows out of HBO's "American Lion."

[03/02/16 - 11:44 PM]
Development Update: Wednesday, March 2
Updates include: Piper Perabo to become "Notorious" for ABC; Kaitlin Olson to lead FOX's "The Mick"; and Cyrus Arnold and Simon Belz to star as "Chunk & Bean" at ABC.

[12/17/15 - 11:35 PM]
Development Update: Thursday, December 17
Updates include: Sean Penn to play HBO's "American Lion"; TV Land orders pilot presentation for "Throwing Shade"; and Hulu cancels "The Awesomes" after three seasons.







AMERICAN LION (HBO)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
12/17/15
STATUS:
previously in development
DESCRIPTION:
six-hour mini-series about Andrew Jackson, a self-made man, a western outsider, a violent warrior and a beloved general who became the country's first People's President; with the fate of the United States uncertain, the willful and mercurial Jackson fought an intractable Congress and special interests to preserve the Union at all costs - leaving a mixed and deeply controversial legacy
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Sean Penn as Andrew Jackson
CREW INFORMATION:
· Carlo Bernard as WRTR/EP
· Doug Miro as WRTR/EP
· Jon Meacham as BOOK
· Matt Jacobson as EP
· Phillip Noyce as DIR
· Robert V. Remini as BOOK
· Sean Penn as EP
GENRE(S):
· based on a book
· mini-series
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Lionsgate Television