GOOD GIGS: "12 Years A Slave" Director Steve McQueen Lands HBO Deal + Halle Berry In "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" Trailer

12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen is keeping his momentum going.  He just nabbed a deal with HBO to take his talents to television.  Deets inside, plus Halle Berry in the brand new X-Men trailer…

Big news for director Steve McQueen.  His 2013 just got even better.  While he’s already started raking in awards for his cinematic hit 12 Years A Slave, he’s keeping the talent party going by signing on for a tv development deal with HBO.

He worked his connect with Brad Pitt (who co-starred in 12 Years) to work with Brad’s World War Z co-writer and Russell Simmons.  And the result is a new provocative project coming to cable television, all based on a young black mans experience with high society in NYC.

Deadline reports:

McQueen has teamed with World War Z co-writer Matthew Michael Carnahan, hip-hop mogul/producer Russell Simmons and Oscar-winning producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech) on the drama project, which is in development at HBO.

Co-written by McQueen and Carnahan and to be directed by McQueen, the untitled drama is carrying McQueen’s signature style of provocative filmmaking and is described as an exploration of a young African-American man’s experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems. We hear the project, described by some as “Six Degrees Of Separation meets Shame“, is being fast tracked, with casting choices already being explored for a potential shoot before McQueen starts his next movie.

We’re all over this.  We’ve already got a lead character in mind.  Who would you love to see play this role?

In other film news, Halle Berry reprises her role as Storm in the brand new official trailer for X-Men: Days Of Future Past:

The movie, which has a bit of a time warp theme, hits theaters May 23, 2014.

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