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Hey, fans of The Studio, a prestige drama about the Jonestown massacre actually *is* coming to your screens... but from SNL and Barry star Bill Hader, not Martin Scorsese
What can we say? Seth Rogen's a prophet. But the "makes a joke so good it tells the future," kind, not the "drink this Kool-Aid" kind, as Bill Hader will probably agree very soon
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Spoilers for Apple TV+'s the Studio follow. (Yes, we know it's a story about something else entirely; trust us.)
Part of the premise of the first episode of The Studio, the Seth Rogen-written-by-and-starring AppleTV+ comedy that eviscerates modern studio culture, is that Rogen's character is trying to figure out what to do with the film rights to Kool-Aid, which his studio bosses have possession of. Hilariously, Rogen tricks real-life moviemaker Martin Scorsese into retitling his (fictional) Jonestown movie to match the IP, because... well, you know. It's a pretty solid joke in a consistently funny series, but now, it looks like a little bit of it is coming true.
That's because another respected artist, Bill Hader, has teamed up with HBO to create a series about the Jonestown massacre, in which it is rumored that Hader may star as infamous cult leader Jim Jones himself. The "Simpsons-did-it-first"-type story comes to us via Variety.
Hader, who previously worked with HBO on the dark, hitman comedy Barry, is said to be developing the project alongside Damages and Bloodline vet Daniel Zelman, who would co-write, co-showrun, and co-executive produce alongside the SNL alum. Since this is the first news we're receiving of the project at all, it probably won't surprise you to hear that no official cast, release date, or title have been announced. You're just going to have to wiat on that one.
In the meantime, I'm going to entertain myself by imagining a world in which Hader and Rogen spent their downtime on the Superbad set (Remember? They were the pair of cops that hang out with McLovin!), chatting about one day doing a piece about the Jonestown massacre. In this exchange that exists only in my head, I'm going to end it with one of them taking the idea a whole lot more seriously than the other.
Keep an eye on Popverse for more about the HBO/Bill Hader Jonestown series as it develops.
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