Harmony Jones
HBO’s “Code of Conduct” has landed both a pilot order and commitments from two big name actors.
Helena Bonham Carter and Rebecca Hall will star in the Steven McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) written pilot, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The show is described as ”a provocative exploration of young African-American Beverly Snow’s (Devon Terrell) experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems”.
Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech, The Wings of the Dove) will co-star as Esther Kaufmann, a woman born into a prominent Jewish family in Manhattan who is an author and psychiatrist. The divorced mother of two grown boys, she is now living life on her own terms — terms that change dramatically though after she crosses paths with the enigmatic Snow. Should Codes of Conduct move to series, it would mark Bonham Carter’s first series regular role. She’s repped by WME, Felker Toczek and Conway Van Gelder in the U.K.
Rebecca Hall (Parade’s End, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town)is set as Rebecca Rotmensen, the eldest child of a New York billionaire. The smart, educated Rebecca will emerge as Beverly’s foremost rival, his equal in guile and ruthlessness. She’s repped by WME and Julian Belfrange Associates in the U.K.
McQueen co-wrote the pilot with Matthew Michael Carnahan. Both will exec produce alongside See-Saw Films’ Iain Canning and Emile Sherman and Russell Simmons.
Paul Dano (“Prisoners”) is also onboard.
