‘The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey’ By Professors Ramin Bahrani and Diane Houslin Premiered on AppleTV+

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, a new mini series directed and executive produced by alumnus and Head of Directing Concentration Ramin Bahrani '96 (CC) and executive produced by Adjunct Professor Diane Houslin, premiered on Apple TV+ on March 11. The show, which was adapted for the screen by Walter Mosley from his own novel by the same name, will have a total of six episodes with new episodes being released weekly on Fridays.

The show stars Samuel L. Jackson as an ailing man forgotten by his family, by his friends, and by even himself. Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker and on the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn, played by Dominique Fishback. When they learn about a treatment that can restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths about the past, present and future.

Watch the trailer below.

Academy Award nominee Ramin Bahrani is an award-winning Iranian-American writer, director, and producer. He is the writer, director, and producer of The White Tiger, for which he has earned Oscar, BAFTA, and WGA Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. Based on the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Aravind Adiga, the critically acclaimed Netflix feature film stars BAFTA nominee Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, and is executive produced by Chopra and Ava DuVernay. He has won numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a “Someone to Watch'' Independent Spirit Award. He has been the subject of retrospectives around the world and all his cinematic work is housed in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. His previous films include 99 Homes (2014), Goodbye Solo (2008), Chop Shop (2007), and Man Push Cart (2005). Bahrani’s television film, Fahrenheit 451 (2018), for HBO, starring Michael B. Jordan, was nominated for five Emmys, including Best TV Movie, and won him a PGA award for Best Television Film.
 

Diane Houslin is a New York City based television and film producer. She has produced several series for broadcast and cable network giants, including; HBO, MTV, ESPN, PBS, NBC, VH1 and The Disney Channel. Her first short film, Morning Breath, received a special jury prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Houslin served as Executive Producer on the ESPN Films feature documentary Through The Fire, which chronicled one fateful year in the life of Brooklyn basketball phenom, Sebastian Telfair. She also directed and produced the feature documentary Lay It On The Line, a comeback story of track sprinter Casey Combest, which was acquired by ESPN. Houslin was selected by the prestigious Sundance Institute as a 2008-09 Fellow in the inaugural class of the Creative Producers Lab. Her feature lab project was the film Yelling To The Sky, which starred Zoe Kravitz and Gabourey Sidibe. In 2009, Diane partnered with acclaimed novelist, Walter Mosley, to form B.O.B. Filmhouse, Inc. The company currently has projects in development with HBO, Cinemax, Sony TV and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. She lives in her hometown of Brooklyn, NY.