When Kate Winslet and HBO work together, great things happen. Just look at “Mildred Pierce” and “Mare Of Easttown” and their respective success at the Emmys for proof. So, having yet another HBO miniseries, “Trust,” on the way with Winslet in the lead is cause for celebration. But HBO just ordered another miniseries with Winslet, “The Palace,” causing subscribers to wonder what we all did to deserve such fantastic news.
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Details are slim on “The Palace” right now, but the logline HBO supplies is as follows: THE PALACE tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel. Say no more, HBO, that’s intriguing enough.
But HBO also knows who’ll write the show and serve as showrunner and who will direct. “Succession” writer Will Tracy leads the show, and if “Succession” is an indication, “The Palace” will be a masterstroke. Meanwhile, English director Stephen Frears, who has “The Lost King,” his comedy about the 2012 discovery of King Richard III’s burial place beneath a Leceister parking lot out this October, will direct the entire series.
Francesca Orsi, Executive Vice President of HBO programming, couldn’t be more excited for the show. “We are honored to be working with this incredibly talented group of filmmakers on “The Palace,”” she said in HBO’s press release for the series. “The notion that Kate Winslet and Stephen Frears, two of our industry’s leading lights (who – remarkably – have never collaborated before now), are joining forces to bring Will Tracy’s wildly original, prescient, and dazzling scripts to life at HBO is a dream come true for us.”
“The Palace” joins “Trust” as the other upcoming miniseries Winslet has in the pipeline for HBO. Based on Hernan Diaz’s novel of the same name from this year, “Trust” unfolds from four different perspectives in four distinct genres. In the series, a wealthy financier gets upset after reading a novel based on his life and hires a secretary to ghostwrite his memoir to set the record straight. However, the secretary soon realizes the man wants to rewrite history, and his wife’s place in it, for his benefit.
No word on when either “The Palace” or “Trust” will head into production, but Winslet has other stuff she’s working on too. She starts production soon on “Lee,” a biopic of photographer Lee Miller. She also stars in James Cameron‘s upcoming mega-sequel “Avatar: The Way Of Water,” out this December.
More Kate Winslet on HBO is great news, but viewers will likely have to wait until late 2023 at the earliest for either of these. However, given Winslet’s previous work with HBO, both of these shows will be must-see TV.