I’m very excitedto announce that film and television star, Ed Asner, will play Benjamin Franklin in a miniseries I’m writing on Franklin’s troubled personal life during the American Revolution. He all but abandoned his common-law wife, Deborah, spending most of his time in London, even failing to sail home to see her when she was on her deathbed; his (illegitimate) son William Franklin betrayed his father’s fierce patriotism becoming a Loyalist during the war. We’re hoping to set the project up as a cable television series at HBO or Showtime in the next year.
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