"We always thought of it as one movie — it was just going to be a three-and-a-half-hour movie," director Billy Ray admits of Showtime's limited series The Comey Rule. "To be honest the structure that we stole was …Jaws," he added of the political drama based on fired FBI boss James Comey’s memoir A Higher Loyalty.
"I…
"I imagine we will be on his radar and I think it is likely the IRS will start auditing my taxes, but that's just a guess," The Comey Rule director Billy Ray said today on how Donald Trump will react to the upcoming Showtime event series. "I think at the very least, I'm in for a mean nickname on Twitter," the Captain…
“Useful idiot” is a pretty self-explanatory term the Kremlin has long used to describe expendable assets that they develop and deploy but never respect. It is also a pretty applicable phrase to sum up the current President of the United States, at least according to Showtime’s excellent and deeply unsettling The Comey…
EXCLUSIVE: A looming question when the CBS Studios event limited series based on former FBI director James Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership airs next year in election season: will President Donald Trump watch and tweet in real time, or ignore it? The allure of the series grows…
Holly Hunter has been set to play Sally Yates in the CBS Studios event miniseries based on former FBI director James Comey's bestselling bookA Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. Yates served as a U.S. Attorney and later Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General under President Barack Obama, and took on the role…
House of Cards standout Michael Kelly is back in the political realm as Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and Tony-winner Jennifer Ehle is set to play Patrice Comey in the CBS Studios event miniseries based on former FBI Director James Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. They join…
Michael Kelly's Doug Stamper was the steel-strong thread of integrity through six seasons of House of Cards. While the show's leads Frank and Claire Underwood stopped at nothing in their Machiavellian scheming, Doug was driven only by his loyalty to Frank.
And although Kelly has three times been Emmy-nominated for the…
For five seasons Michael Kelly’s character Doug Stamper was tied to directly to Kevin Spacey’s underhanded Frank Underwood. Most of his scenes were played with Spacey, so when it all fell apart for the star of that show, it looked like it would also be a wrap for Kelly’s character, Robin Wright and the show as…
EXCLUSIVE: For five seasons, Michael Kelly has played Chief of Staff Doug Stamper on House of Cards. And for five seasons, Kelly has impressed — and earned multiple Emmy nominations — for his role as the cold and calculated foot soldier for Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood. As Kelly enters the sixth and final season as…
House of Cards' Michael Kelly has been cast in the second season ofTom Clancy's Jack Ryan as a series regular, joining previously announced Noomi Rapace and John Hoogenakker.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, which hails from the Lost duo of co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland, Platinum Dunes, Skydance Media…
While many artists claim their projects are a “family affair,” this proved to be the case for John Hyams with All Square, a gambling drama featuring many of his long-time friends, among them writer Timothy Brady and House of Cards actor Michael Kelly. The film follows John (Kelly), a down-on-his-luck bookie who takes…
Hours after Netflix said House of Cards will end after next season, sources confirm to Deadline that the streaming service is considering spinoffs from its veteran drama series. One could center on Michael Kelly’s Doug Stamper character.
The news comes amid a scandal enveloping Kevin Spacey, who has been…