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Lily Collins (“The Mortal Instruments”) will join Matt Bomer in the Billy Ray directed pilot “The Last Tycoon” over at Amazon.
The reworking of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s final unfinished novel will also star Kelsey Grammer and Rosemarie DeWitt.
Deadline says :
The project centers on Stahr (Bomer), Hollywood’s first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930s as he climbs to the height of power pitting him against his mentor and current head of the studio Pat Brady (Grammer), a character based on Louis B. Mayer. Collins will play Brady’s young daughter Celia, a lost young rich girl in love with Monroe who begins taking her seriously after her intriguing movie pitch. Dewitt plays Pat Brady’s wife, Rose Brady.
Ray and Chris Keyser executive produce and serve as showrunners on The Last Tycoon. Also exec producing are Josh Maurer, David Stern and Alix Witlin. Pulitzer-winning author and Fitzgerald scholar A. Scott Berg serves as consulting producer.
Ray is best known as the writer-director of Hayden Christensen starrer “Shattered Glass”.
