The Last Tycoon Trivia | 20 facts about the series

«The Last Tycoon» is an American television series, originating from a pilot produced in 2016 as part of Amazon Studios’ seventh pilot season.

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1. The Last Tycoon is an American television series, originating from a pilot produced in 2016 as part of Amazon Studios’ seventh pilot season.
2. The show stars Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer.
3. It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last book, the unfinished and posthumously published 1941 novel The Last Tycoon.
4. Amazon picked up the pilot to series on July 27, 2016.
5. The first season premiered on July 28, 2017.
6. On September 9, 2017, Amazon cancelled the series.
7. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last book The Last Tycoon (published posthumously), the show takes place in 1936 Hollywood.
8. Monroe Stahr, loosely based on the producer Irving Thalberg, battles his boss Pat Brady.
9. It was in development for HBO until Amazon picked it up in 2014.
10. Margo Taft is Jennifer Beals’s favorite role of her career.
11. The titular character, as in the novel, was inspired by MGM’s Irving Thalberg.
12. In the pilot episode, during a meeting with a Nazi doctor who leans on Monroe Stahr in regards to anti-German content, the executives mention studios who go along with the contract listing, among others, Warner Bros. In fact, Warner Bros. was the only studio to ignore this and jeopardized their major supporter of American produced movies.
13. Amazon Orginal. The pilot debuted in June 2016 and the show got a season order, debuting in July 2017.
14. The first screen adaptation of the book since The Last Tycoon (1976).
15. Produced in 4K Ultra HD and HDR.
16. Billy Ray’s first TV series since Earth 2 (1994).
17. This is the second time Kelsey Grammer and Saul Rubinek have starred in a show together. The first time was in “Frasier” with Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane and Saul Rubinek as Donnie Douglas.
18. The series consists of 9 episodes.
19. Although there are plenty of great real-life stories to tell about the history of the film industry, The Last Tycoon is undoubtedly fiction and no person named Monroe Stahr ever existed in reality (which makes a lot of sense, because a film tycoon named “Stahr” would be just a bit on the nose).
20. According to «The Hollywood Reporter» Amazon cancelled The Last Tycoon after one season, reportedly owing to the period drama’s expensive production costs.