Philip Seymour Hoffman to Star in, Executive Produce Showtime Pilot TRENDING DOWN

Philip Seymour Hoffman may be headed to Showtime.

According to Variety, the acclaimed actor will executive produce and star in the premium cable network's upcoming pilot TRENDING DOWNWARDS, described as "a blistering attack on our youth-obsessed culture." The official announcement is expected next week.

Hoffman will take on the role of Thom Payne, a middle-aged man facing his own obsolescence after his advertising agency is bought out.

TRENDING DOWNWARD marks Hoffman's first project since checking into rehab earlier this year.

For the original report, head on over to Variety.

Hoffman last appeared on screen in The Master, for which he received an Oscar nomination, and will next appear in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, A Most Wanted Man and God's Pocket. Past film credits include: Moneyball, The Ides of March, Jack Goes Boating, The Invention of Lying, Mary and Max, Doubt, Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, Capote, Along Came Polly, Cold Mountain, Red Dragon, Punch-Drunk Love, Almost Famous, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Big Lebowski, Twister, Leap of Faith and more.

Hoffman most recently appeared on Broadway in Death of a Salesman in 2012. His other performances on the Great White Way include Long Day's Journey Into Night and True West, as well as off-Broadway's Jack Goes Boating, The Seagull, The Author's Voice & Imagining Brad, Shopping and fing, Defying Gravity and The Shriker. Hoffman also directed off-Broadway's The Little Flower of East Orange, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Glory of Living and Jesus Hopped the A Train.

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