Mad Men Star Writing and Directing Movie

Mad Men star John Slattery is set to write and direct an upcoming film after working in Hollywood for 20+ years. “I have a script that I just finished that I’m trying to work out the rights situation,” he recently told The Huffington Post, “and that’s why I asked to direct Mad Men, which was a great experience, but it’s someone else’s vision, it’s clearly Matt Weiner’s vision of the show.”

Slattery got the chance to direct two episodes of the most recent season of the Weiner-created/produced Mad Men, but his big-screen directorial debut will be an adaptation of a book he read many years ago and has been looking to make for the past 10 years. After running into his old producing partner, the cards starting falling into place.

However, because of ongoing rights negotiations, Slattery wasn’t at liberty to reveal the name of the source material.

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