Academy Award winner Sean Penn got his professional start in television back in 1974, playing “Kid” in two episodes of Little House On The Prairie. Four decades later, he is set to return to the small screen – this time playing the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, in American Lion. Planned as a six hour HBO miniseries, the project is an adaptation of American Lion: Andrew Jackson In The White House by Jon Meacham, with additional research material sourced from a biography by Robert V. Remini.
Scripted by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard (Narcos), the adaptation will take the form of a miniseries so as to encompass greater swathes of the life of Andrew Jackson, who was a deeply controversial figure. Born in 1767, Jackson worked as a courier during the American Revolutionary War in his early teens, and was orphaned by the age of 14. He grew to be a lawyer,...
Scripted by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard (Narcos), the adaptation will take the form of a miniseries so as to encompass greater swathes of the life of Andrew Jackson, who was a deeply controversial figure. Born in 1767, Jackson worked as a courier during the American Revolutionary War in his early teens, and was orphaned by the age of 14. He grew to be a lawyer,...
- 12/18/2015
- by Sarah Myles
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