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Robert Evans Developing Korshak Miniseries
1 April 2009 10:22 PM, PDT
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Legendary producer Robert Evans, Paramount Pictures and HBO are teaming to tell the epic story of Sidney Korshak, a Chicago attorney who came to Hollywood and leveraged relationships with politicians, labor leaders, showbiz and the underworld to become the ultimate behind-the-scenes showbiz fixer.
HBO has acquired The Devil and Sidney Korshak, a Vanity Fair article by Nick Tosches, as source material. Art Monterastelli (Rambo) has been hired to write the six-hour miniseries. The project will be a co-production of HBO Productions and Paramount.
For Evans, the deal is the culmination of years spent trying to mount a Paramount feature on Korshak, who served as trustee of the Central States Teamsters Fund and maintained relationships with the likes of Lew Wasserman and Henry Kissinger.
Before Korshak died in 1996, Evans said he spent 300 days a year with the kingpin. The producer has done voluminous research on the project. Evans watched Korshak make
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