Jason Bateman, David Harbour to Star in HBO Dark Comedy ‘DTF St. Louis’
The ‘Ozark’ and ‘Stranger Things’ actors will also be executive producers of the limited series.
November 1, 2024
Jason Bateman and David Harbour are getting involved in a love triangle.
The Ozark and Stranger Things stars are set to topline an HBO limited series called DTF St. Louis. The seven-episode show comes from creator and showrunner Steven Conrad (Wonder, Prime Video’s Patriot). Bateman and Harbour are also executive producers.
“We are tremendously excited to work with the brilliant auteur Steve Conrad, whose singularity of vision lies central to all his work as a storyteller,” said Francesca Orsi, executive vp HBO Programming and head of HBO drama series and films. “With David Harbour and Jason Bateman at series center, two masterful titans in their own right, we couldn’t be more emboldened by the journey ahead and look forward to sharing this special, emotionally provocative piece with the world come time.”
HBO describes DTF St. Louis as a dark comedy “about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead.”
The show has been in development for more than two years. It was originally titled My Dentist’s Murder Trial and based on a 2017 New Yorker story by James Lasdun. At the time, Harbour and Pedro Pascal were attached to star. Pascal (who also stars in HBO’s The Last of Us) has since exited the project, which has also evolved into an original story not based on the magazine piece. Lasdun remains an executive producer on the show, however.
Conrad is executive producing the series with Bateman and Michael Costigan of Aggregate Films; Harbour; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch of Escape Artists, and Molly Allen, Bruce Terris, Kristina Wenson of Bravo Axolotl, Lasdun and MGM Television.
Bateman will next be seen in Netflix’s feature film Carry-On, due to premiere Dec. 13, and will star opposite Jude Law in a drama series titled Black Rabbit for the streamer in 2025. Harbour has Marvel’s Thunderbolts* and the final season of Stranger Things set to premiere next year.
Bateman is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Management + Media, Hansen Jasobsen and Shelter PR. Costigan and Aggregate Films are are also with CAA and Lighthouse Management + Media.