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HBO Plans Series on U.S. Exodus

The Hollywood Reporter, Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:15 AM

Talk about perfect timing. HBO is working on a futuristic drama series that essentially asks: What if the current financial crisis in the U.S. becomes so severe that Americans start to flee the country?

Supposedly set 25-40 years from now, when the precipitous decline of the U.S. leads to a mass exodus of its citizens, "Americatown" is about a cluster of newly arrived American immigrants in a Chinatown-like enclave in a big foreign city. "It presents Americans as immigrants, as both underdogs and heroes in the drama of global dislocation."

The deal at HBO caps a decade-long development process for Winters, who shepherded the project as a series, movie, miniseries and a book. Winters has previously worked on "Oz," "The Jury" and "The Bedford Diaries."

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