Jason Bateman, David Harbour to Star in HBO Series ‘DTF St. Louis’

Jason Bateman and David Harbour are getting concerned in a love triangle.

The Ozark and Stranger Issues stars are set to topline an HBO restricted collection referred to as DTF St. Louis. The seven-episode present comes from creator and showrunner Steven Conrad (Marvel, Prime Video’s Patriot). Bateman and Harbour are additionally govt producers.

“We’re tremendously excited to work with the sensible auteur Steve Conrad, whose singularity of imaginative and prescient lies central to all his work as a storyteller,” mentioned Francesca Orsi, govt vp HBO Programming and head of HBO drama collection and movies. “With David Harbour and Jason Bateman at collection middle, two masterful titans in their very own proper, we couldn’t be extra emboldened by the journey forward and look ahead to sharing this particular, emotionally provocative piece with the world come time.”

HBO describes DTF St. Louis as a darkish comedy “a couple of love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that results in considered one of them ending up lifeless.”  

The present has been in growth for greater than two years. It was initially titled My Dentist’s Homicide Trial and primarily based on a 2017 New Yorker story by James Lasdun. On the time, Harbour and Pedro Pascal have been connected to star. Pascal (who additionally stars in HBO’s The Final of Us) has since exited the mission, which has additionally advanced into an authentic story not primarily based on the journal piece. Lasdun stays an govt producer on the present, nonetheless.

Conrad is govt producing the collection with Bateman and Michael Costigan of Combination Movies; Harbour; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch of Escape Artists, and Molly Allen, Bruce Terris, Kristina Wenson of Bravo Axolotl, Lasdun and MGM Tv.

Bateman will subsequent be seen in Netflix’s function movie Carry-On, as a result of premiere Dec. 13, and can star reverse Jude Legislation in a drama collection titled Black Rabbit for the streamer in 2025. Harbour has Marvel’s Thunderbolts* and the ultimate season of Stranger Issues set to premiere subsequent yr.

Bateman is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Administration + Media, Hansen Jasobsen and Shelter PR. Costigan and Combination Movies are are additionally with CAA and Lighthouse Administration + Media.