Matt Bomer to Lead Amazon Drama Pilot THE LAST TYCOON

Deadline reports that AHS: HOTEL star Matt Bomer has signed on for the lead role Amazon Studios' drama pilot THE LAST TYCOON, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's final unfinished novel. The project was ordered earlier in Novmeber as cast-contingent.

According to the site, the pilot will follow "Monroe Stahr (Bomer), Hollywood's first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930s as he climbs to the height of power pitting him against his mentor and current head of the studio Pat Brady, a character based on Louis B. Mayer. With Stahr as a focal point, the series delves into the true violence, sex and towering ambition of Hollywood in the '30s."

Bomer won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series, or Television Film for THE NORMAL HEART, HBO's film adaptation of the Broadway play. Bomer portrayed New York Times writer Felix Turner in the film.

Known to television viewers the world over as White Collar's Neal Caffrey, Bomer won a Critics' Choice Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of Felix Turner in HBO's critically acclaimed screen adaptation of The Normal Heart. Based on the Tony Award winning Larry Kramer play about the AIDS epidemic in New York in the 1980's, the movie also starred Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo and Jim Parsons, and was directed by Ryan Murphy.

Bomer's movie credits include Flightplan, The Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Space Station 76, andSteven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, alongside Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum. On television, he has been seen in Traveler, the FOX series Tru Calling, and the NBC series Chuck as well as the FOX series GLEE and NBC's The New Normal.

On Stage, he was recently seen in the Broadway and Los Angeles readings of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8, where he was joined by such acting luminaries as Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John C. Reillyand Ellen Barkin.

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