Showtime Orders AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE Pilot, Michael C. Hall to Executive Produce

Though Dexter is ending, Michael C. Hall's relationship with Showtime apparently isn't.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the premium cable network has ordered a pilot based upon Matthew Specktor's just-released novel AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE, with Hall serving as an executive producer.

Set in the 1970s and present day, AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE tells "the story of a talent agent and his troubled sons -- two generations of Hollywood royalty. It's billed as a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business and the sundry sea changes that have come to shape Hollywood."

Showtime has enlisted DEXTER's showrunner Scott Buck to supervise the pilot, with Specktor penning the script.

For the original report, head on over to The Hollywood Reporter.

Hall is perhaps best known for starrng as the title character in Showtime's 'Dexter.' Off-Broadway, Hall has appeared in Macbeth and Cymbeline at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and in Timon of Athens and Henry V at New York Public Theater, The English Teachers at the Manhattan Class Company (MCC), and Corpus Christi at the Manhattan Theatre Club. He also performed in the workshop production of what was then known as Sondheim's Wise Guys, later versions of which were titled Bounce and, finally, Road Show.

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