Emma Stone, Jonah Hill To Star, Cary Fukunaga To Direct Paramount TV Remake Of Norwegian Dark Comedy ‘Maniac’

The migration, or exodus if you will, continues. The stigma of television is so long gone it’s actually reversed. As the industry shifts and the quality of the small screen has soared thanks to HBO, Showtime, Netflix, and cable subscribers, more and more filmmakers and talent are looking at TV not as pivot of mediums, but simply as a longer, deeper form of narrative that’s often just as compelling as film. A forerunner in this direction is filmmaker Cary Fukuanaga. The indie director of “Sin Nombre” and “Jane Eyre” has already experimented successfully with TV (season one of “True Detective”) and streaming networks (“Beasts of No Nation”). Fukunaga already has a TV mini-series at FX ramping up (“The Alienist”), and now the omnivorous and non-partisan helmer has got yet another TV project in the works.

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According to Deadline, Cary Fukunaga is to direct “Maniac” for DirecTV,...