HBO to Adapt ALL THE WAY for the Screen; Bryan Cranston to Reprise Role

Bryan Cranston will be stepping back into his presidential garb in the near future.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Tony Award-winner is set to star in HBO's screen adaptation of ALL THE WAY, the Lyndon Johnson biographical play, from director Jay Roach. This project marks the second collaboration between Roach and Cranston, having previously worked together on TRUMBO.

Roach is not new to presidential stories, having directed HBO's film about John McCain and Sarah Palin, GAME CHANGE.

With Robert Schenkkan set to adapt ALL THE WAY, the movie will be produced by Amblin Television, Tale Told Productions, and Moon Shot Entertainment. Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, and Justin Falvey will serve as executive producers with Schenkkan and Cranston with James Degus as co-executive producer.

Keep checking BroadwayWorld as news about the cast, release date, and more roll in!

All the Way, the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, starring BREAKING BAD's Bryan Cranston, played on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre and opened on Thursday, March 6, 2014 for a strictly limited engagement. The play was directed by Bill Rauch, Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where All the Way began its theatrical life.

All the Way originally starred Cranston (Lyndon B. Johnson), Eric Lenox Abrams (Bob Moses), Betsy Aidem(Lady Bird Johnson), J. Bernard Calloway(Ralph Abernathy), Rob Campbell (Governor George Wallace), Brandon J. Dirden (Martin LUTHER King, Jr.), James Eckhouse (Robert McNamara), PeterJay Fernandez (Roy Wilkins), Christopher Gurr (Senator Strom Thurmond), William Jackson Harper (Stokely Carmichael), Michael McKean (J. Edgar Hoover), John McMartin (Senator Richard Russell),Christopher Liam Moore (Walter Jenkins), Robert Petkoff (Senator Hubert Humphrey), Ethan Phillips(Stanley Levison), Richard Poe (Senator Everett Dirksen), Roslyn Ruff (Coretta Scott King),Susannah Schulman (Lurleen Wallace), Bill Timoney (Senator Karl Mundt) and Steve Vinovich (Rep. Emanuel Celler).

All the Way takes audiences behind the doors of the Oval Office and inside the first year of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency and his fight to pass a landmark civil rights bill.