Actor Matthew Rhys wants to play the powerful New York urban planner Robert Moses in an adaptation of Robert Caro’s genre-defining biography The Power Broker , and he says Netflix is interested, though publishing rights have emerged as a holdup over the project.

Rhys revealed the Power Broker project on Conan O’Brien’s podcast Monday (O’Brien, it is worth noting, is a well-known fan of Caro’s, finally landing him as a guest in 2019 after years of trying to book him).

“There is a select group of us who have approached a very well-known streaming platform,” Rhys said. “At the moment, dear Mr. Caro, he doesn’t have an issue with handing over the rights to The Power Broker . The agencies and publishing houses do. So at the moment, it’s in this stalemate whereby I know the Flix call

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