Mike Lowery
Television continues to welcome Michael Douglas into it’s untoppable podium.
The “Kominsky Method” star will star in a new series – his second in a matter of years, following the successful aforesaid sitcom he co-starred in with Alan Arkin – for James Foley and Paramount TV Studios that’ll have a few folks egged with excitement.
Back in the white house -following his tenure as president Andrew Jackson in “The American President” (1995) – Douglas will wear the shorter hair stylings of cowboy turned actor turned POTUS Ronald Reagan in “Reagan & Gorbachev”, opposite Christopher Waltz’s Mikhail Gorbachev.
Written by B.Garida, Vulture says the thing is based on a book, “Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War”, by the 40th president’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Ken Adelman, which follows “the two world powers as they sit down in 1986 to negotiate a nuclear-arms treaty. While the summit ended without an agreement, the talks set the stage for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which the United States and Soviet Union signed the next year in 1987.”
As much as I’d kill to see Douglas return to the big screen in something worthy of his marquee name – “Ant-Man” doesn’t count – good to see TV knows what to do with the great New Brunswick-born thesp.
For those under the age of 15, Douglas started his career in TV : Starring opposite Karl Malden on cop series “The Streets of San Francisco”.
