Bob Odenkirk to star in TV collection adaptation of novel Straight Man

By Express News Service

AMC Networks has introduced {that a} collection titled Straight Man starring Bob Odenkirk is quick in growth. The collection can be an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo’s 1997 novel of the identical identify.

Straight Man follows William Henry Devereaux Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely interim chairman of the English division of the extraordinarily underfunded Railton College discovered within the rust belt of Pennsylvania.

Additional forged members are but to be introduced. The collection is produced by AMC together with Sony Pictures’ Television TriStar TV and Gran Via. Straight Man will mark Odenkir’s third collection with AMC after Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul.

Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein will function the showrunners on the challenge. Zelman and Lieberstein can even direct together with Odenkirk and Peter Farrelly. Author Russo can even be an govt producer alongside Naomi Odenkirk and Marc Provissiero.