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Susan Sarandon to Join Norbert Leo Butz, Hope Davis, Frank Langella, Patti LuPone, et al. in HBO’s Miraculous Year Pilot

Susan Sarandon
(© Tristan Fuge)
Susan Sarandon
(© Tristan Fuge)

Additional casting has been announced for the HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, according to EW.com. Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow will direct and executive produce.

The show will be written by 2010 Tony Award winner John Logan, and centers on a self-destructive Broadway composer, which EW.com reports will now be played by Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, and not as previously reported by Eddie Redmayne, who will be featured in a different role.

New additions to the pilot’s cast include Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, as well as Elaine Cassidy, Remy Nozik, Logan Georges, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Giancarlo Esposito, Karine Plantadit, Brooks Ashmanskas, Andre Ward, Erik Altemus, and Daniel Davis.

They join the previously announced cast members Hope Davis, Frank Langella, Patti LuPone, Lee Pace, Linus Roache, and Stark Sands.