A-listers Assemble.

Aram Rappaport scored some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone, Janet McTeer and Hank Azaria, to star in his new murder mystery series, “The Artist.”

“Mandy came first and I think he turned it down first, and then we came back to him with an appeal that he should look at this like a comedy,” Rappaport exclusively told The Post.

“It read very dark and depressing, and I think that’s not something he necessarily wanted to do. And so when we decided it would be sort of a love story between him and the wife, it was something that he was very passionate about ultimately.”

“And then a lot of the other actors, I wrote for them,” he continued. “Patti LuPone, I sort of begged for a meeting and I just said, I really would love for her to

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