“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong is again at HBO, this time with a movie.
IndieWire can verify that Armstrong’s subsequent undertaking after wrapping “Succession” in 2023 is a function movie set throughout a world monetary disaster. The film is at present within the works; Deadline first reported the information of the undertaking.
Armstrong’s currently-untitled function will middle on 4 mates who meet up throughout the turmoil of an ongoing worldwide monetary disaster. The undertaking is predicated on an authentic thought, with Armstrong govt producing alongside his “Succession” collaborator and fellow producer Frank Wealthy. Each have total offers at HBO; the movie is a part of HBO Movies.
Armstrong continues to be writing the script; manufacturing will start later in 2025. Armstrong beforehand landed a Greatest Tailored Screenplay Oscar nomination for his 2009 movie “In The Loop,” which he cowrote with “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, and Tony Roche.
“Succession” aired for 4 seasons on HBO and accrued 75 Emmy nominations and 19 wins. The “Succession” finale set a collection viewership document.
Armstrong’s fellow “Succession” govt producer Adam McKay additionally tackled a monetary disaster drama with “The Huge Quick.”
Although Armstrong is popping to function movie and away from TV for the time being, maybe there might be extra “Succession” sooner or later. Sequence alum Matthew Macfadyen beforehand mentioned on the Emmys {that a} “Succession” spinoff is “extremely unlikely,” however not completely off the desk.
“I’d say, ‘By no means say by no means,’ but it surely’s extremely unlikely,” Macfadyen mentioned of a follow-up. “However it’ll depend upon what Samantha Bergeson Jesse Armstrong desires to do, however I believe Jesse’s intuition, and all our instincts, is that it led to simply the suitable place.”
Macfadyen continued of the ultimate season, “And we type of didn’t tie it up, we simply left [them]… to hold on of their unusual and crappy world. In order good as it will be to work with all people once more, I do suppose it will be unusual to do a by-product.”
Armstrong mentioned within the e book “‘Succession’: Season 4: The Full Scripts” that initially HBO wished the ultimate season to be cut up into two elements; nonetheless, he disagreed.
“My sense was that we should always do one final full-fat season somewhat than stretch it out,” Armstrong wrote. “However I used to be cautious of claiming goodbye too quick to all of the relationships and alternatives, of leaving artistic cash on the desk, regretting all of the subplots that might go unwritten, the jokes left untold.”