George Clooney returned to television … but not the way you think.
Unlike the return of the old Noah Wyle co-star to the medical procedural genre with “The Pitt”, Clooney will go to the small screen via the big white way. In recent months, he has performed at the Winter Garden Theater in Broadway in a theatrical adaptation of his nominated biopic in 2005 “Good Night and Good Luck”. Now he will bring this story back to the place where she started: on television.
Loved on Saturday, June 7 on CNN, CNN will broadcast a live performance of “Good Night and Bood Luck” in what will be the penultimate performance of the Broadway Show. It is also the first time in the story of Broadway, a game has been a televised live.
According to the New York Times, the play will be preceded and followed by a cover and a discussion on the show, its history and the current state of journalism. The play covered a period of time in 1953 when the faithful journalist Edward R. Murrow and his team of journalists targeted Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. At the time, its committee of non -American activities of the Chamber caused an undue terror across the country, but thanks to the news of Murrow on CBS, the Junior Senator of Wisconsin was finally the subject of an investigation and censored in 1954.
Echoing the value of how news can have an impact, Clooney has chosen to associate with CNN to broadcast “Good Night and Good Luck” as a symbol of the lasting force of journalism.
“We plan to take the play on the road, take it to London, and take it to Paris, but we also thought that it would never be exactly what it is right now, with the same distribution, and we thought it would be good to have a file,” Clooney told New York Times. “And then we thought, because the news ballots are all finished live, it is the perfect thing to try to create on live television, which is always exciting – there is no safety net, and it is a fun thing to do.”
In addition to broadcasting the play live, Clooney is also negotiating an agreement for live recording to be organized on a streaming platform later.
Before co-writing the scenario with the producer partner Grant Heslov, then directing the cinematographic version, Clooney initially considered “good night and good luck” as a television piece, similar to the way “12 Angry Men” and “Marty” were set up in the 1950s. Obtaining the chance to present the material in this way brings his relationship to the loop of history, but the actor Don’t think her themes never get rid of.
“Unfortunately, this piece is still timely,” said Clooney. “What journalists do in life will always be challenged by people in power – they don’t like it unless they can control it.”
The co-stars of Broadway production Ilana Glazer, Glenn Fleshler, Clark Gregg, Carter Hudson, Christopher Denham, Fran Kranz, Mac Brandt, Will Dagger and Georgia Heers.
