Gabriel Bateman will star in the comedy created by Bryan Cranston and director Greg Mottola (Superbad, Keeping Up with the Joneses) and inspired by the best-selling guidebook of the same name. Amazon ordered the project straight to series last month, after it was first developed at NBC in 2014.
The show, co-produced by Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television, is a passion project for Cranston, who made it his first scripted project as a producer after his award-winning Breaking Bad run. Cranston and Mottola鈥檚 dramatic adaptation of the 2006 how-to book, written by Conn and Hal Iggulden, tells the story of Wyatt (Bateman) and his brothers coping with the death of their inventor father, Patrick. Patrick leaves his sons a copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys, which inspires a whimsical fantasy world that allows Wyatt to feel connected to his father while gaining skills that apply to his real life.