Having appeared on a few TV series of late — Moon Knight and Scenes From A Marriage to name two – Oscar Isaac is looking to lock down another. He's now in talks to star in and produce a crime thriller series called Helltown, with the twist being he'll play author Kurt Vonnegut in the show.
The story, which Severance's Mohamad El Masri has adapted from Casey Sherman's book, follows Vonnegut before he was a renowned writer and cultural lightning rod. In 1969 Kurt was a struggling novelist and car salesman living life with his wife and five children on Cape Cod. When two women disappear and are later discovered murdered underneath the sand dunes on the outskirts of Provincetown, Kurt becomes obsessed and embroiled in the chilling hunt for a serial killer and forms a dangerous bond with the prime suspect.
Helltown has some top-notch talent attached aside from Isaac: Edward Berger, whose All Quiet On The Western Front adaptation scored four Oscars this weekend, will direct the eight-episode series, in development at Amazon Studios. And Robert Downey Jr., who has increasingly been working on the producer side of his career, is involved via his Team Downey company.