No, HBO’s ‘Succession’ Is NOT About the Murdoch Family
Brian Cox’s Logan Roy might resemble Rupert Murdoch, but “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong swears his HBO characters are NOT based on the 21st Century Fox/News Corp. first family. This, despite the fact that Armstrong is the guy who wrote the famously un-produced “Murdoch” screenplay, which has appeared on Hollywood’s Black List.
When asked by a reporter how much his script about the real media moguls leaked into this new TV series, Armstrong said it only existed “deeply in the background.”
“This is a fictional family,” he emphasized.