HBO is already pulling out all the stops this season but now, in perhaps the biggest coup yet, Kathryn Bigelow has signed on to direct John Logan’s drama pilot “The Miraculous Year.”
The light drama will center on the story of a New York family as seen through the lens of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer, and is an original idea by Logan, whose impressive resume includes Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator,” Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” and his upcoming “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” Logan was nominated for Oscars for his work in both “Gladiator” and “The Aviator.”
Filming for the pilot will begin sometime between May and June this year possibly depends on Bigelow’s future feature schedule. Bigelow will most likely helm the pilot and fall back on her producing role alongside Logan and Lydia Pilcher but to see her at work on the pilot alone will be fascinating. For one, the project sounds like a stark departure from her typical action-oriented work.
“The Miraculous Year” will join HBO’s illustrious slate next season alongside Scorsese’s “Boardwalk Empire” starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Stuhlbarg and Kelly MacDonald; Michael Mann’s teaming with David Milch for horse racing drama “Luck”; Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of Walter Mosely’s “The Long Fall”; the David Fincher and Charlize Theron produced crime drama, “Mind Hunter”; Russell Crowe, Simon Beaufoy and Maria Bello’s “Emergency Sex”; the Nikki Finke Hollywood blogger tale “Tilda”; and the Zooey Deschanel starrer, groupie story “I’m With The Band.”