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Kathrine Hahn’s Joan Rivers biopic is dead…here’s the strange reason why

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Kathrine Hahn would star as the late comedienne and gay icon Joan Rivers, parent network Showtime has scrapped the much-anticipated series.Variety reports that the show, written by Cosmo Carlson and produced & directed by Greg Berlanti, ran into legal issues with the Rivers estate.

Specifically, the producers of the show had purchased Carlson’s script on spec without securing the rights to Rivers’ life.

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