The Spoils of Babylon
| The Spoils of Babylon | |
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| Created by |
Matt Piedmont Andrew Steele |
| Written by | Matt Piedmont Andrew Steele |
| Directed by | Matt Piedmont |
| Starring |
Tobey Maguire Kristen Wiig Tim Robbins Jessica Alba Val Kilmer Haley Joel Osment Michael Sheen Will Ferrell |
| Theme music composer | Andrew Feltenstein John Nau |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Will Ferrell Adam McKay Tobey Maguire Kristen Wiig Matt Piedmont Andrew Steele Nate Young Pavlina Hatoupis J.B. Popplewell Cherie Carter Parks |
| Cinematography | Giles Dunning |
| Editor(s) | David Trachtenberg |
| Running time | 135 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Funny or Die |
| Release | |
| Original network | IFC |
| Original release | January 9 – February 6, 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The Spoils Before Dying |
The Spoils of Babylon is an American comedy miniseries written by Matt Piedmont and Andrew Steele, directed by Piedmont, and starring Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Sheen, and Will Ferrell. It is intended to be a spoof of the epic-scale "TV event" miniseries adapted from bestselling novels (such as The Thorn Birds and Rich Man, Poor Man) prevalent on American network television in the 1970s and 1980s. The miniseries premiered on IFC on January 9, 2014. For her performance as Cynthia Morehouse, Kristen Wiig was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
The entire miniseries is presented as if it had been a real miniseries, with a fictional backstory of how it took three years to film and was originally 22 hours long, and each episode is framed with its author/director Eric Jonrosh sitting in a restaurant discussing it. Patriarch Jonas Morehouse shepherds his daughter Cynthia and adopted son Devon from meager beginnings in the oil fields of Texas to powerful boardrooms in New York City. Cynthia and Devon, entwined in undeniable love, stumble through war-torn battlefields, blazing mansions, filthy drug dens and velvet-sheeted bedrooms on their quest for power and influence. Despite Jonas' best efforts to intervene, Cynthia and Devon's merciless love sets into motion a wave of destruction that crashes down on Devon's graceful wife Lady Anne, his daughter Marianne, his colleague and lover Dixie, Cynthia's hen-pecked husband Chet, her evil son Winston, the scheming Generals and far beyond.
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