On November 16, 2017, the production was announced. He, along with his producing partner and frequent collaborator Grant Heslov, came on board as directors and executive producers.

The producers asked George Clooney to direct. Michôd was originally set to direct until he became unavailable as a long-gestating feature film of his moved forward in production. Davies and Michôd co-wrote the adaptation, which Brown developed at Anonymous. The screen rights to the novel were held by Paramount Television where Anonymous Content had a deal. Davies brought up Heller's novel, which the trio agreed would benefit from a longer treatment than the two hours of Mike Nichols' 1970 feature film.

George Clooney as Major (later Colonel and eventually Brigadier General) ScheisskopfĪround 2014, producer Richard Brown, writer Luke Davies and writer-director David Michôd discussed properties that they would like to tackle in limited series format similar to True Detective, which Brown had just executive produced.

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The events occur in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II while the fictional 256th US Army Air Squadron is based on the (fictionalized) island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, and conducting bombing raids over heavily defended fascist controlled Italy.Ĭast and characters Starring He tried to avoid flying by feigning illness, sabotaging his intercom, poisoning everyone at the base or clandestinely moving the bomb line so it appears their target has already been captured. Yossarian chose bombardier, hoping the war would finish before his lengthy training but now sits exposed in the nose of a B-25, dropping bombs on enemy territory who are trying to kill him.

He is trapped by the bureaucratic rule Catch-22, which considers a willingness to fly dangerous combat missions to be insane, yet a request to be relieved of duty on the grounds of insanity to be the process of a rational mind, so any such request must be denied. John Yossarian ( Christopher Abbott) is a United States Army Air Forces bombardier in World War II, furious that thousands of people are trying to kill him and that his own army keeps increasing the number of missions he must fly. The series was written by Davies and Michôd and directed by Clooney, Heslov, and Kuras, with each directing two episodes. The series stars Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie, and George Clooney, who is also an executive producer alongside Grant Heslov, Luke Davies, David Michôd, Richard Brown, Steve Golin, and Ellen Kuras. It premiered on May 17, 2019, on Hulu in the United States. Catch-22 is a satirical dark comedy miniseries based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller.

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