Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) has joined Adam McKay’s HBO drama series centered on the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s as legendary basketball coach Pat Riley (via Variety).
The currently untitled series is based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s written by Jeff Pearlman.
The HBO series is described as chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties, in what came to be called the Showtime Era.
Coach Riley “led the Lakers to four NBA championships and unprecedented superstardom.