Succession creator Jesse Armstrong targets world of high finance in his next project - a film about an international money crisis
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is set to announce his next project and is believed to start filming this year.
It is understood that HBO original film will focus on a group of four friends during an international financial crisis.
The studio is on the look out for actors for the film as the seven-time Emmy winner is currently working on the script.
Armstrong, 53, was reportedly approaching the $1 million per episode level for the final series of Succession, and it is thought his new deal with HBO is even more lucrative.
The unnamed film comes two years after the finale of the hit show, which earned 75 Emmy nominations across its four season including a record-breaking sweep in 2023.
The widely-acclaimed HBO series about the Roy family's high-stakes battle for control of a global business empire, picked up the prestigious Best Drama prize for its fourth and final season.
Brian Cox, Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen and and Kieran Culkin also won acting trophies during their time portraying members of the wealthy but miserable Roy family.
Armstrong, who is teaming up with Succession's executive producer Frank Rich for the new film, is now finalising parts of the script, according to Variety.
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong (pictured) is set to announce his next project and is believed to start filming this year
Armstrong, 53, was reportedly approaching the $1 million per episode level for the final series of Succession
Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen, Kevin J. Messick, Jesse Armstrong, Nicholas Braun, and Kieran Culkin, winners of the Best Drama Series Award for Succession
Before Succession, he helped create both Peep Show and The Thick Of It.
The renowned screenwriter currently lives in a terraced house in South-East London with his wife Millie, who works for the, NHS, and their two children.
He grew up in Oswestry in Shropshire. His father was a teacher who later turned crime novelist and his mother worked in nursery schools.
During a degree in American Studies at Manchester University, he met writing partner Sam Bain. The two of them wrote Fresh Meat and Peep Show together.
Starting out, Armstrong supplemented his income by working as a painter and decorator, and also as an MP's researcher.
He already has big-screen credits including an Oscar nomination for co-writing In the Loop.
Following the end of Succession, Armstrong admitted he wanted to take a break and talking in a 2023 interview he said he wanted to 'noodle away rather than running into the next thing'.
He tole the Observer: 'I've got a few ideas but I'm really trying to enjoy the feeling of living a more normal life where every set of emails isn't a mad triage of what is going to immediately explode.'
