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Deadline - Laura Dern To Star In HBO Death Row Drama In Development From Alex Gibney

The untitled drama centers on a court-appointed psychiatrist (Dern) who must determine from her twisted yet humanizing diagnostic exchanges with death row inmates if they are sane enough to be killed by the state. Gibney is executive producing with Dern, while Jayme Lemons (Enlightened) serves as co-executive producer. Robert Kealing, an investigative and criminal justice reporter, is a consultant.

This marks the narrative debut of Gibney, who has emerged as one of the leading documentarians of the past decade with such films as the Oscar-nominated Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side and most recently, Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine.

At HBO, he recently did the Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Emmy-nominated Sinatra: All or Nothing at All. Gibney has tackled the topic of death row inmates in the CNN documentary series Death Row Stories.

If this goes to series I'll be over the moon~

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

This will be interesting as his first fictional directorial debut.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

This will be interesting as his first fictional directorial debut.

I know! I'm super excited to see what he'll come up with.

 

[dead souls]

Sounds good. I look forward to HBO not airing it.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I look forward to HBO not airing it.

Don't even joke about that

 

[nhlducks35]

This guy has a hella filmography

Filmography

1. The Ruling Classroom (1980)
2. Manufacturing Miracles (1988)
3. The Fifties (1997), television mini-series
4. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy (1998)
5. The Sexual Century: Sexual Explorers (1999)
6. The Sexual Century: The Sexual Revolution (1999)
7. Jimi Hendrix and the Blues (2001)
8. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
9. 3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas (2005)
10. Behind Those Eyes (2005)
11. Time Piece (segment "Empire of the Pushcarts") (2006)
12. The Human Behavior Experiments (2006)
13. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
14. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)
15. Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
16. My Trip to Al Qaeda (2010)
17. Freakonomics (segment Pure Corruption) (2010)
18. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
19. Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
20. Catching Hell (2011)
21. The Last Gladiators (2011)[12]
22. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
23. Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (2012)
24. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
25. The Armstrong Lie (2013)
26. Finding Fela (2014)
27. Ceasefire Massacre (2014) ESPN 30 for 30:Soccer Stories
28. Fields of Fear (2014) ESPN 30 for 30 Short
29. Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014)
30. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
31. Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
32. Sinatra: All or Nothing At All (2015)

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Really smart guy. I met him briefly at an Academy Award gala for documentary film way back in 2005.