Frequent collaborators Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips (the Hangover trilogy; the upcoming War Dogs) are back at it again with an all-new miniseries which just caught a greenlight over at HBO.
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The series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, which focuses on how the worldwide terror group got started.
Warrick won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for the nonfiction work. Cooper and Phillips, both of whom are executive producing, went so far as to fly to the author’s hometown to convince him in person to collaborate on the project.
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Cooper read the book and believed it would work as a limited series, according to Deadline, which first reported the deal. “The book tracks the group’s unlikely roots and transformation into the world’s most feared terrorist organization – as well as the small band of American and worldwide agents tasked with shutting it down”. Meanwhile, director Tim Van Patten, who has worked on HBO hits like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire, will also executive produce, on top of helming the project. He and Phillips then met with Warrick and pitched the idea for the miniseries. They were surprised that he showed his support for the Democratic party after portraying Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in Clint Eastwood-directed “American Sniper”.
