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Article: HBO, Playtone nab their Adams.(Playtone Productions and Home Box Office Inc. contracts Paul Giamatti to act as John Adams in a miniseries)(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- August 21, 2006
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Paul Giamatti will play John Adams in a seven-episode miniseries about the American Revolution that Playtone is producing for HBO Films.
Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are exec producing the project based on the David McCullough bestseller "John Adams." Co-exec producer Kirk Ellis scripted the mini, which begins shooting in January in Virginia.
HBO will begin airing the seven hourlong segments in March 2008.
Though Adams became the second U.S. president. Giamatti will play him when he was a Massachusetts lawyer working behind the scenes to mobilize the revolt of the colonies.
Book was partly based on letters between Adams and wife Abigail, ...