Having previously mined the 1960s to create Mad Men, Matt Weiner reached as far back as the 1600s to bring to life his next project, Amazon’s The Romanoffs.
Given the single-episode commitment, Weiner is aiming to recruit not just from his stable of estimable Mad Men players, but other notable actors as well.
“The story for me is that we’re all questioning who we are and who we say we are.”
Announced last October amid some secrecy, Weiner is now sharing details about the project, which has roots of sort in the titular Russian dynasty (which ended in February 1917) but is set in the present day.