Award winning director Ang Lee of ‘Life of Pi’ has been tapped to direct the FX series Tyrant. The project marks Lee’s directorial debut in television. Lee just took home the Oscar for best director at this year’s 85th Academy Awards.
The director is set to helm the pilot episode of ‘Tyrant’ that comes from ‘Homeland’ producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff. The drama chronicles an “unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.” The series comes from the creative mind of Raff and will be produced through Fox 21 and FX Productions.
John Landgraf, the president and general manager of FX, made the official announcement. “Ang Lee has demonstrated time and again ability to present characters with such depth and specificity that they reveal the universal human condition,” said Landgraf. “No one could be a more perfect film maker to bring Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff, and Craig Wright’s ‘Tyrant’ to indelible life.”
Aside from ‘Life of Pi’, Ang Lee is also known for his work on ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, ‘Lust, Caution’, ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘The Ice Storm’, ‘Ride with the Devil’, ‘The Hulk’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’. Production on the forthcoming series will kick off this summer.
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