Jude Law may play pope on TV Series

Actor Jude Law is reportedly heading to the small screen as a fictitious pope.

Actor Jude Law is reportedly heading to the small screen as a fictitious pope.

The British actor is in advanced negotiations to take the lead role as the first Italian-American pope in history on a high-concept TV series which is being developed under the working title “The Young Pope”, reported Variety.

Italian Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino is writing the script along with Umberto Contarello, Stefano Rulli and Tony Grisoni.

Grisoni recently described Law’s character as “a hard-line conservative American pontiff recruited by a Vatican fed up with liberals.”

He further said, “No one, even at the Vatican, is prepared for how hard-line this American pope really is.”