EXCLUSIVE: LBI Leisure has signed for administration the prolific Emmy profitable author, director and producer Danny Sturdy.
Sturdy, whose current work consists of Dopesick, Empire and Recount, is at present engaged on a basic Hollywood-era movie for director Martin Scorsese starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Sturdy wrote the script on spec which was shortly taken off the market by LBI. Sturdy can also be at present co-writing Extremely with Tony Kushner for Steven Spielberg, primarily based on the Rachel Maddow podcast, Rachel Maddow Presents: Extremely.
Sturdy’s resume consists of popular culture successes just like the Fox drama collection Empire, which he co-created, served as exec producer and director of a number of episodes, however he’s considered one of Hollywood’s stronger writers in scorching button and political matters. He was the creator and showrunner of the Hulu collection Dopesick, which starred Michael Keaton and centered on the Opioid scourge and the function of the Sackler household’s Purdue Pharma in spreading it. It gained the Peabody award and was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards, profitable two, and it was nominated for 2 Golden Globes, a PGA, Critics Selection in addition to a DGA award nomination for Sturdy.
Sturdy’s breakout success got here on the political monitor, as his script Recount, in regards to the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida, topped the Hollywood Blacklist. It was turned by HBO into an Emmy profitable TV film, with Sturdy profitable the WGA award. Sturdy returned to that terrain at HBO with Recreation Change, about how Alaska governor Sarah Palin upended the candidacy of John McCain in 2008. That movie gained two Emmys, a Golden Globe, Peabody, WGA Award and PGA Award.
On the characteristic facet, Sturdy scripted Lee Daniels’ The Butler, the sleeper hit that starred Forrest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, and co-wrote The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay, components one and two. Sturdy in 2017 made his characteristic directorial debut on his script Insurgent within the Rye, which starred Nicholas Hoult, Hope Davis, and Sarah Paulson and premiered at Sundance.
Sturdy has additionally written a number of stage musicals together with Galileo, and he wrote a brand new e-book to the musical Chess. Each exhibits are eyeing Broadway runs.
Sturdy turned to writing after beginning his profession as an actor in movie and TV exhibits together with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Ladies. He most just lately performed Todd Krakow on Billions.
He continues to be agented by CAA and lawyered by Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
