Jim Carrey to Star in New Showtime Series Directed by Michel Gondry
Today, Showtime announced that for the first time in 20 years, Jim Carrey will star in a television series. It gets better- he’s reuniting with Oscar winner Michel Gondry. Gondry will direct the 10 episode first season.
Dave Holstein, who created the popular series Weeds, created the series and wrote the pilot. Carrey, and Gondry both serve as executive producers along with Jason Bateman, Jim Garavente, Raffi Adlan and I’m Dying Up Here‘s Michael Aguilar.
“No one inhabits a character like Jim Carrey, and this role – which is like watching Humpty Dumpty after the fall – is going to leave television audiences wondering how they went so long without him,” David Nevins, President and CEO of Showtime said. “With his Eternal Sunshine partner Michel Gondry on board to direct, we are on our way to a magnetic, volcanic and emotional viewing experience.”
Carrey has won two Golden Globes as a lead actor, in 1999 for The Truman Show (Motion Picture – Drama) and a year later for Man on the Moon (Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy). His other top screen credits include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (under Gondry’s direction), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Bruce Almighty, The Mask, Me, Myself & Irene, Yes Man and Dumb and Dumber. An executive producer on the Showtime series I’m Dying Up Here, Carrey starred for several seasons on the series In Living Color.
Gondry won an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which he directed Carrey and Kate Winslet. Gondry’s other screen credits include Microbe & Gasoline, Mood Indigo, The We and the I, The Green Hornet, Be Kind Rewind, The Science of Sleep and Human Nature.
