Jonah Hill to play Hollywood fixer Sidney Korshak in a miniseries on his work with Lew Wasserman from The Departed writer

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Hill is teaming with Oscar-winning The Departed writer William Monahan to tell the story of Korshak and Wasserman, the MCA chairman who was the most powerful man in Hollywood. Hill is set to play Korshak in the miniseries created by Monahan that will be shopped around. According to Deadline, "Wasserman was the visionary who in the 1940s liberated actors from film studio control by creating the modern talent agency, and then straddled both lines until the government made him choose and Wasserman shed talent representation for producing. Wasserman’s empire building was abetted by Korshak, an attorney now famous for providing a bridge between organized crime and Hollywood."