In January 2018, it was announced that the streaming service Hulu would produce a six episode adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22. The episodes will be directed by, as well as star, George Clooney and the series will also include the likes of Christopher Abbott as John Yossarian, Kyle Chandler as Colonel Cathcart, Hugh Laurie as Major de Coverley, and Lewis Pullman as Major Major Major Major. If you’re excited to see the new adaptation, then you’ll want to check out the trailer released by Hulu.
As the video description reads: “Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II. Catch-22 premieres May 17.” It continues: “Christopher Abbott is Yossarian, a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is “to come down alive”. His odds of success at such a simple aim keep getting worse, because Colonel Cathcart (Kyle Chandler) keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. More than the retreating Germans, the real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you’re crazy, and don’t have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you as not to, then you’re sane, and so you have to fly them.”
Catch-22 is set to be made available on Hulu on May 17. UK viewers can catch it on channel 4.
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