David Fincher prepping HBO shows about 1980s music videos and 1950s cops
With HBO recently ordering a Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, and Mick Jagger-produced drama about a record executive, struggling to find a new purpose amid the explosion of disco and punk in the 1970s, it’s now considering another show that will look at how that search ultimately didn’t matter. Deadline reports that David Fincher is working on a half-hour comedy set in 1983, amid the explosion of the image-driven music video industry that will render pretty much everything Bobby Cannavale’s character achieves in that Scorsese show moot. Tentatively titled Living On Video, the show will likely draw from Fincher’s own experiences directing clips for the likes of Paula Abdul, Billy Idol, and Madonna in its tale of Bobby, a wannabe sci-fi movie director who gets his start working on videos for artists like that or their fictional, libel-skirting counterparts.