The pay cabler’s series adaptation of The President Is Missing, a 2018 novel by former POTUS Bill Clinton and mystery author James Patterson, is no longer moving forward.
Showtime acquired the rights to The President Is Missing back in September 2017, several months before the book was published.
The series would have starred David Oyelowo (Selma) as a powerless and politically aimless vice president who unexpectedly becomes president halfway into his administration’s first term when POTUS (Dowd) goes missing.
The president has indeed gone missing — from Showtime’s schedule, that is.