Show Me A Hero, a new HBO miniseries starring Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Oscar Isaac, finally has a premiere date. The six-part series will start on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 9 p.m.
The story is based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin and will be directed Crash’s Paul Haggis. David Simon (The Wire, Treme) wrote the script with William F. Zorzi.
Isaac stars as the young mayor of Yonkers, New York in the years after the 1960s civil rights struggle. The city was ordered by a federal court to provide low-income housing in white neighborhoods and the mayor has to struggle with holding the city together, even while it is clearly coming apart.
The cast also includes Catherine Keener, Winona Ryder, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, Alfred Molina, Jim Belushi and Bob Balaban.
Executive producers include Zorzi, Simon, Haggis, Nina K. Noble and Gail Mutrux.
Isaac has earned acclaim for recent performances in Drive, Inside Llewyn Davis, Ex Machina and A Most Violent Year. He plays one of the three main characters in the new Star Wars movie, which hits theaters in December, and the title villain in X-Men: Apocalypse. Show Me A Hero will be his first time on TV since a 2006 Law & Order: SVU episode.
As for HBO, the network also sees the return of True Detective this summer. Season two starts on June 21.
image courtesy of Kristin Callahan/ACE/INFphoto.com