Along with the poster comes some weird scheduling news.
HBO announced two weeks ago that the six-hour miniseries “Show Me A Hero” would air over six Sundays, stretching from Aug. 16 to Sept. 27 – but today the channel announced it will air two hours per Sunday Aug. 16 through Aug. 30.
Oscar Isaac (“Ex Machina,” “Star Wars Episode VII”) stars in “Show Me A Hero” as Nick Wasicsko, the real-life 28-year-old mayor of Yonkers, N.Y., who saw his political career derailed after he was forced by a federal court to build low-income housing in his city’s whitest neighborhoods.
Catherine Keener (“Captain Phillips,” “Bad Grandpa”) plays the leader of an East Yonkers homeowners association whose views on the project change radically once she gets to know its prospective tenants.
The six-hour miniseries is based on the book by Lisa Belkin and co-scripted by Simon, who masterminded numerous other projects for the channel, including “The Wire,” “Treme” and two other miniseries: “The Corner” and “Generation Kill.”
Joining Isaac and Keener in the cast are Winona Ryder, Alfred Molina, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, Bob Balaban and Jim Belushi.
