A new drama series starring and executive produced by Jason Bateman and David Harbour has been ordered at HBO. According to an official press release, the WBD network has picked up DTF St. Louis from Steven Conrad. Conrad serves as showrunner, writer, director, and executive producer.
According to HBO, DTF St. Louis’s official synopsis is “A darkly comedic limited series about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead.” In addition to Conrad, Bateman, and Harbour, the creative team includes executive producers Todd Black (The Piano Lesson, Servant), Steve Tisch (Dr. Death: Miracle Man, The Equalizer 3) and Jason Blumenthal (Seven Pounds, A Journal for Jordan) of Escape Artists; Bruce Terris (Perpetual Grace, LTD Hell on Earth), Michael Costigan (Lessons in Chemistry, Florida Man) and Molly Allen (The Mother, The Undoing) of Aggregate Films; Bravo Axolotl’s Kristina Wenson (Gran Turismo, No Sudden Move); and James Lasdun (Besieged, Sunday). MGM Television also produces.
“We are tremendously excited to work with the brilliant auteur Steve Conrad, whose singularity of vision lies central to all his work as a storyteller,” HBO’s Executive VP of Programming and Head of Drama Series and Films, Francesca Orsi stated. “With David Harbour and Jason Bateman at series center, two masterful titans in their own right, we couldn’t be more emboldened by the journey ahead and look forward to sharing this special, emotionally provocative piece with the world come time.”
Conrad is known for his Amazon Original series Patriot, which ran for two seasons, and the 2013 adventure-comedy film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty starring and directed by Ben Stiller (Severance). He recently wrote two podcast series, The Integral Principles of the Structural Dynamics of Flow and New Techniques in Modern Practical Close Combat.
Child-actor-turned-adult-star Bateman returned to prominence with the underrated FOX family comedy Arrested Development. Since then he’s starred in film and TV, most notably in the Netflix crime series Ozark. Harbour is gearing up to return to the big screen in Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* to reprise his role as the Red Guardian. He’ll also make his final appearance as Officer Jim Hopper in season five of Stranger Things.