In 1986, in an austere room of a small house in Reykjavik (Iceland) - according to the journalist Peru Egurbide then in this newspaper - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev talked for four and a quarter hours in an attempt to lower tensions and reduce differences in arms control (and eliminate all types of nuclear weapons).
That meeting, key in the evolution of the Cold War, was recorded in the book Reagan in
Reykjavik: 48 Hours That Ended the Cold War
(not published in Spain) and that will now become a series with two great protagonists: Michael Douglas will be the president of the United States and Christoph Waltz his Soviet namesake.
The book was written by Ken Adelman, who held the position of Chief Arms Officer of the United States President in the 1980s, and the series, which will be titled
Reagan & Gorbachev,
will be produced by Paramount television studios and directed by James Foley (veteran of fictions such as
House of Cards
or
Billions
and film director such as
Glengarry Glen Ross
), according to the specialized publication
Deadline
.
The Paramount studio, which then sells its products to chains and platforms, is responsible for fictions such as
The Curse of Bly Manor
,
Defending Jacob
,
Jack Ryan
or
Home Before Dark
.
Douglas thus continues his television career, a medium where the premiere of the third season of
The Kominsky Method
(already without Alan Arkin), a fiction with which he won a Golden Globe, and the animated series
What If ...?
from Disney + where he takes up his character from the Marvel movies Hank Pym.
Television also gave the American actor another Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Liberace in the film
Behind the Candelabra
.
The Austrian actor, who also has two Oscars as Douglas, and who is expected again in the next James Bond film as the villain Blofeld, has had a shorter and more bitter stint on American television with
Most Dangerous. Game
, from the now defunct —and short-lived— short video platform Quibi.
Reagan will also have a film that will tell his life, from his childhood to his time at the White House through his time as an actor, and which will be directed by Sean McNamara and starring Dennis Quaid, Mena Suvari (will be the actress and first wife of Reagan, Jane Wyman), Penelope Ann Miller (Nancy Reagan), Jon Voight and Lesley-Anne Down (Margaret Thatcher).