Succession Emmy winner and The Trial of the Chicago 7 star Jeremy Strong is set to play Dr. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine in the Bron and 21 Laps feature production Splendid Solution.
The project will be adapted by Gillian Weeks from Jeffrey Kluger’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same name.Splendid Solution tells the true story of Salk’s triumphant quest to create the polio vaccine as the illness ravaged the U.S.Salk’s battle against the virus, his perseverance and eventual triumph made him a cultural hero and icon for a generation.Splendid Solution will be the second film adaptation of Kluger’s work, the author’s Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 having served as the inspiration for Ron Howard’s two
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