Bryan Cranston is bringing his Tony-winning performance as President Lyndon Johnson to HBO.
The premium cable network is working on an adaptation of the play All the Way for TV, and Breaking Bad star Cranston will reprise the role he played on Broadway.
Steven Spielberg recently bought the rights to the play with a plan to bring it to TV with Cranston in the lead role, Deadline reports. Spielberg's Amblin Television with produce the movie for HBO Films.
Pulitzer-winning writer Robert Schenkkan, who wrote the play, will write the TV adaptation. He has collaborated with Spielberg and HBO in the past, on the award-winning miniseries The Pacific.
The play offers a peak behind the curtain during Johnson's first year in office, when the assassination of JFK, the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement had turned the nation into a serious pressure cooker.
It's not the only thing Cranston has in the works. He's scheduled to begin production on the film Trumbo, in which he plays a screenwriter whose Hollywood career is derailed when he's blacklisted as a Communist.
[Via Deadline]
