By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor-producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been tapped to essay the function of former Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick in Showtime sequence “Super Pumped”.
According to Variety, the anthology drama hails from “Billions” creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien and Beth Schacter.
The trio will government produce, write and function showrunners on the sequence.
The season one is predicated on journalist-author Mike Isaac’s guide “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber”.
It will cope with Uber and Kalanick’s meteoric rise in Silicon Valley, the corporate’s curler coaster journey and Kalanick’s eventual ouster amid allegations of sexual harassment and a poisonous surroundings on the firm.
“Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a remarkably clever and charismatic actor, embodying appeal with an unpredictable edge.
We are past excited to see what he’ll carry to the function of Travis Kalanick, the hyper-brilliant and controversial CEO whose ambition and reckless drive threatened the very enterprise he was decided to construct,” mentioned Amy Israel, government vp of scripted programing at Showtime.
Each season of “Super Pumped” will discover a narrative that rocked the enterprise world to its core and altered tradition.
