Showtime confirms Taika Waititi and Jude Law's The Auteur, offers details on the "gonzo horror-comedy"

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Starring Law and based on the graphic novel of the same name by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson, half-hour Hollywood satire The Auteur is described as a "gonzo horror-comedy, a twisted romance and a glamorous, high wire act of biting satire. In it, desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer." Showtime has ordered multiple scripts. Waititi, fresh off his Oscar win for best adapted screenplay for JoJo Rabbit, is set to direct the pilot, while Peter Warren will serve as writer. "The Auteur unites the wildly imaginative filmmaker Taika Waititi and the barbed wit of Peter Warren with the undeniable Jude Law in a bloody love letter to the movies that will make you simultaneously die laughing and want to run for your life,” said Amy Israel, Showtime’s executive vice president of scripted programming.