“The Plot Against America,” Philip Roth’s 2004 novel set in an alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin D. Roosevelt and turns America into a Fascist, anti-Semitic state where Jews are openly persecuted, will become a six-part HBO miniseries.
Winona Ryder (“Stranger Things”), Morgan Spector (“Homeland”), and Zoe Kazan (“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”) play members of the Levin family, and John Turturro plays Lionel Bengelsdorf, a Conservative rabbi who becomes a key figure in the new administration. David Simon and Ed Burns are adapting the novel and will produce, and Roth is among the executive producers.
Ryder will return to Netflix for the fourth season of “Stranger Things” on July 4, and Spector will star with Gina Torres in the “Suits” spinoff “Pearson” on USA later this year. Turturro will next be seen in Sundance TV’s “In the Name of the Rose,” based on the novel by Umberto Eco. It premieres May 23.
