Browsing: Eileen Myers

After more than four years of labor and love—beginning with Shawn Ryan’s first meeting with Jon Hamm in April 2022—American Hostage has finally reached screens. Paul Salfen talks with Ryan, co-creator/co-showrunner Eileen Myers, and director/EP Adam Arkin about the long haul from acclaimed podcast to MGM+ psychological thriller, the game-face intensity of a cold Winnipeg

Dick Hall walked 63 hours on a wire and spent the rest of his life being called a sissy for not fighting back. Kristoffer Polaha kept the page that explains why in his script. Paul Salfen talks with Kristoffer Polaha (Dick Hall), Mireille Enos (Barbara Heckman), and Giovanni Ribisi (Tony Kiritsis) about MGM+’s American Hostage