"John Adams" - a Home Box Office Miniseries
It's founding fathers' day for HBO miniseriesLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Actors Tom Wilkinson and David Morse will join the cast of the HBO miniseries "John Adams," which stars Paul Giamatti as the second U.S. president. Wilkinson will play Benjamin Franklin, and Morse George Washington in the seven-hour miniseries, which is slated to premiere in 2008. Based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, the miniseries will chronicle the first 50 years of the American republic. It will be told through the eyes of Adams' wife, Abigail (Laura Linney). Wilkinson and Morse join the previously cast Stephen Dillane as Thomas Jefferson, Danny Huston as Samuel Adams, Rufus Sewell as Alexander Hamilton, Justin Theroux as John Hancock and Guy Henry as Jonathan Sewall. Production is scheduled to begin shortly, with most of the filming taking place in Colonial Williamsburg, Va. Tom Hanks will serve as an executive producer. Wilkinson's recent credits include "Batman Begins" and "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." He received an Oscar nomination for 2001's "In the Bedroom." Morse, who recently had a recurring role on Fox's "House," appears in "Disturbia," which opens in theaters April 13. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Filming for 'John Adams' begins Thursday in Williamsburg By LARRY BONKO, The
Virginian-Pilot The long-delayed filming of the seven-part miniseries, "John Adams" is scheduled to begin Thursday in Colonial Williamsburg at two locations, HBO announced Tuesday. Director Tom Hooper, an Emmy winner, will roll the cameras at Bruton Parish Church and at the "public gaol," or jail, where lawbreakers were held awaiting trial. Paul Giamatti, who plays John Adams in the HBO Films/Playtone production, is expected to appear in both scenes. The scene at the "public gaol" involves Adams meeting with British troops who were involved in the Boston Massacre of 1770. At Bruton Parish Church, the scene re-creates a town meeting where colonists debate their next course of action. HBO also announced additional cast members Tuesday. Stephen Dillane plays Thomas Jefferson, Danny Huston plays Samuel Adams, Rufus Sewell is cast as Alexander Hamilton and Justin Theroux has the role of John Hancock. Cast as Jonathan Sewall, the British loyalist who clashed with John Adams, is Guy Henry. Last year, The producers selected Laura Linney to play Abigail Adams. Although Colonial Williamsburg is the starting point for "John Adams," HBO said much of the series will be filmed at three locations in the Richmond area. When production in Virginia is complete in the late spring, the filming moves to Europe. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, the partners in Playtone Productions, announced in July 2005 that the John Adams project would be filmed in Virginia. Filming was originally scheduled to run from September 2006 through April 2006, but delays pushed the start date into 2007. Thanks, Nadine!! HBO Readies 'John Adams'Miniseries begins filming in February Paul Giamatti A long-gestating miniseries based on the prize-winning
biography "John Adams" is ready to go at HBO. His great political adversary was Thomas
Jefferson who, with James Madison, created the
opposition Republican party (later named the Democratic-Republic He worked to defeat both John Adams and Jefferson in the election of 1800; but when the House of Representatives deadlocked, he helped secure the election of Jefferson over Hamilton's long-time political enemy, Aaron Burr. In 1773, Hamilton attended a college-preparatory program with Francis Barber at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. There he came under the influence of a leading intellectual and revolutionary, William Livingston.[citation needed] He attended King's College (which became Columbia University) in New York City. When Church of England clergyman Samuel Seabury published a series of pamphlets promoting the Tory cause with conviction, Hamilton struck back with his first political writings, A Full Vindication of the measures of Congress, and The Farmer Refuted written in 1774. In 1794, Hamilton became intimately involved in an affair
with Maria
Reynolds that badly damaged his reputation. Reynolds's husband, James, blackmailed
Hamilton for money by threatening to tell Hamilton's wife, Eliza. When James Reynolds was
arrested for counterfeiting, he contacted several prominent members of the
Democratic-Republic At first Hamilton accused Monroe of making his affair public, and challenged him to a duel. Aaron Burr stepped in and persuaded Hamilton that Monroe was innocent of the accusation. His well-known vitriolic temper led Hamilton to challenge several others to duels in his career. http://en.wikipedia more Hamilton history from Wickipedia: Arguably the most famous duel in American history, it arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that developed between both men that came to a point with Hamilton's journalistic defamation of Burr's character during the 1804 New York gubernatorial race in which Burr was a candidate. Fought at a time when the practice of dueling was being outlawed in the northern United States, the duel had immense political ramifications. Burr, who survived the duel, would be indicted for murder in both New York and New Jersey (though these charges were either later dismissed or resulted in acquittal), and the harsh criticism and animosity directed towards him would bring about an end to his political career and force him into a self-imposed exile. Further, Hamilton's untimely death would fatally weaken the fledging remnants of the Federalist Party, which combined with the death of George Washington (1732-1799) five years earlier, was left without a strong leader. |
