This week beginning May 30, Amazon will be selling Ron Nyswaner’s 2004 book Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir of Desire , a deeply personal look at the journey of its author who continues to be a leading voice in movies and television with a rich and varied filmography that has taken him from screenwriter to director to creator to producer and showrunner. Nyswaner joins me this week for this episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens. His most current project is Showtime/Paramount+’s limited series Fellow Travelers .
Adapted from the book by Thomas Mallon, it follows the relationship of Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) and Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey) on an emotional, rocky and heartbreaking trip from the McCarthy hearings and Lavender Scare of the ’50s in Washington, D.C. up to the AIDS crisis and tragedy of the ’80s.
Nyswaner serves as executive producer, creator, writer and showrunner of the series that has been compared to The Way We Were — or, as Bomer told me, “the gay we were,” a reference to the love story of these two men during eras when it was often difficult to be your true self or risk your career and everything else. Related Stories News Chuck Lorre On The Joys Of The Uncensored ‘Bookie’, The Sorrows Of Saying Goodbye To ‘Young Sheldon’ & Why CBS Initially Passed On ‘The Big Bang Theory’ – Behind The Lens News Maya Rudolph On Going In Front & Back Of The Camera In Her Hit Apple TV+ Series ‘Loot’; Plus, Why She Also Loves Doi.