Viola Davis, Pariah’s Dee Rees Team Up For HBO Projectby Wilson Morales
August 17, 2011
Viola Davis, who’s currently in the film, ‘The Help,’ and Dee Rees, director of the upcoming lesbian film, ‘Pariah,’ are teaming up to work on a project for HBO.
Variety states that the pay cabler is close to finalizing deals for the untitled project Davis is developing with Rees, screenwriter Margaret Nagle and John Lesher.
Series is said to be a look at the corruption of a city through the eyesof the headmaster of an exclusive prep school who has her eye on bigger things. Davis would play the headmaster, though sources cautioned that there is no deal yet in place for her to star.
Rees is penning the script and co-writing the story with Nagle, an HBO vet who mostly recently wrote for the network’s period drama “Boardwalk Empire.” Rees may also direct the pilot once the final deals are hammered out.
Davis, Nagle, Lesher and his producing partner Adam Kassan would serve as exec producers, with Rees as a co-exec producer.
