With Entourage nearing its eighth and final season, series creator Doug Ellin is looking towards his next project: a Sex and the City for dudes.
While this is the potential series unofficial dubbing, the comparison has to be made. The show, titled ’40’ will document the lives of four friends living in New York, and will explore the real life struggles of men today: that is, dealing with careers, marriage and friendships. It’ll also be set in the foreground of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
“It’s something I’ve lived with my friends. People were thinking that 40 is the new 20 and their life is all set – and all of a sudden they woke up one day and had no money,” Ellis told Variety.
Native New Yorker Ed Burns will feature in the half-hour HBO pilot and will star as one of the show’s leads. Burns will play a wealthy banker whose life is suddenly changed after his bank collapses. No word yet on another other joining cast members.
Ellin had plans in 2007 to create a HBO show about ‘hedge-fund guys,’ a series to be written by writers of Oceans 13, but that project is still on the backburner. Let’s be honest though, who wants to watch Wall St suits cashing cheques and banging bitches, when we can instead watch 40-somethings having their careers usurped, egos bruised and coming to grips with the emotional and sexual tumult that comes with finding the girl of their dreams.
Written By Kellie Hill
