Matt Bomer is headed to Washington
Matt Bomer has announced his next big project, and as they say in Hollywood, it’s a doozy. Bomer will star and produce a new gay political thriller series for Showtime.Fellow Travelers, based on Thomas Mallon’s novel, will chronicle the life of Hawkins Fuller, a top political operative in Washington DC during the McCarthy/Blacklist era.
Fuller has a thriving career sans any romantic entanglements until he meets Tim Laughlin, a handsome, religious Washington newcomer.Laughlin and Fuller cannot deny their attraction to one another, but when Sen.
Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn (who was gay himself) vow to rub out sexual deviants in the government, the two lovers face total ruin to stay together.
The show will span more than 20 years, from the McCarthy Era, through the Vietnam War of the ’60s and ’70s, and into the 1980s, when the AIDS crisis ravaged the LGBTQ community.Related: Are Matt Bomer and Bradley Cooper about to become a couple?Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar-nominated writer of Philadelphia, will adapt Fellow Travelers to the screen.
