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HBO has greenlighted seven-episode limited series DTF St. Louis, starring and executive produced by Jason Bateman and David Harbour, from writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Patriot).
The darkly comedic series, whose title refers to the social media acronym for “Down To F*ck,” is about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead.
DTF St. Louis has evolved from the Steve Conrad limited series project My Dentist’s Murder Trial, which HBO put in development more than two years ago with Harbour and Pedro Pascal attached to star and EP. It was a true-crime drama about Kingston, NY dentist Dr. Gilberto Nunez (Pascal) who went to trial for allegedly killing his friend Tom Kolman (Harbour).
There is no dentist in DTF St. Louis, which comes from the same creative and producing team: writer, director and showrunner Conrad who executive produces alongside Harbour; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch for Escape Artists; Bateman, Molly Allen, Bruce Terris and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films; Kristina Wenson for Bravo Axolotl; and MGM Television.
“We are tremendously excited to work with the brilliant auteur Steve Conrad, whose singularity of vision lies central to all his work as a storyteller,” said Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming, Head of HBO Drama Series and Films. “With David Harbour and Jason Bateman at series center, two masterful titans in their own right, we couldn’t be more emboldened by the journey ahead and look forward to sharing this special, emotionally provocative piece with the world come time.”
Harbour is wrapping up his five-season run as Jim Hopper on Netflix’s hugely popular series Stranger Things. He is part of the voice cast of DC Studios’ animated series for Max Creature Commandos. Harbour is repped by WME and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
Ozark alum Bateman and his Aggregate Films recently produced Peacock’s Based On A True Story, which is returning for a second sason, Netflix’s Florida Man and Apple TV+’s Lessons In Chemistry. Bateman and Aggregate are repped by CAA, Lighthouse Management and Media and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
Conrad, who created/co-created series Patriot, Perpetual Grace, LTD and Ultra City Smiths, is repped by CAA and Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin.
