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Alec Baldwin to Star in A Few Good Men Live on NBC

The ”30 Rock” star will take on the role that Jack Nicholson famously played in the 1992 film adaptation of Aaron Sorkin’s stage drama.

Kenji Fujishima
Los Angeles
Alec Baldwin will play Col. Nathan Jessep in NBC's upcoming live broadcast of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men.
Alec Baldwin will play Col. Nathan Jessep in NBC's upcoming live broadcast of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alec Baldwin will star in NBC's televised staging of Aaron Sorkin's military courtroom drama A Few Good Men. The 30 Rock star will play Col. Nathan Jessep, the role Jack Nicholson famously took on in Rob Reiner's 1992 film adaptation.

Executive-produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and directed by She Love Me Tony nominee Scott Ellis, the live broadcast will air in 2018.

First produced on Broadway in 1989, A Few Good Men follows the court-martial of two U.S. Marines who killed a fellow Marine at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Sorkin will pen the teleplay of the broadcast, as he did for the film version.