The legendary musician will play a major role in a pilot to be directed by the award-winning film-maker behind Me,Earl, and the Dying GirlTom Waits is set to star in a unique pilot for a show on Hulu, and to be directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon,winner of the 2015 Sundance grand jury prize award for the teen drama approximately terminal illness Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl.
The pilot is for a unique supernatural drama called Citizen,set in a “supernaturalized” Los Angeles, according to Deadline. The show is billed as a hero origin story with elements of magical realism, or will see Waits playing Cesar,a priest who runs a guerrilla humanitarian outfit with questionable legality from his church in Boyle Heights. His character is described as a “proudly anti-authoritarian man”.
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Source: theguardian.com