K.T Simpson
Showtime announced today that Emmy nominee and Critics Choice Award winner Matt Bomer (“White Collar”) will star in the limited series “Fellow Travellers”, which he will executive produce with Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) and Robbie Rogers (All American, My Policeman). Daniel Minahan (”Halston”, ”American Crime Story: Versace”) will executive produce and direct the first two episodes. The series will go into production this July in Toronto.
Based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, “Fellow Travellers” is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington. Bomer will play handsome, charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin, a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history. Over the course of four decades, Hawk and Tim cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.
“As a thrilling and deeply moving exploration of character and American life in the latter half of the past century, Fellow Travellers shines an unprecedented light on stories that are as urgent today as ever,” said Winograde. “The series delivers us directly into an insider world of Washington rife with national consequences, while drawing out the intimate moments that are profoundly personal and often heartbreaking. We are beyond thrilled to have Ron, Matt, Robbie and Daniel take us on this suspenseful and romantic journey.”
