
‘Tear Down This Wall’: ‘Veep’ Writer Ian Martin to Pen Cold War Satire
Posted on Thursday, October 8th, 2020 by Hoai-Tran Bui
Contemporary Washington has surpassed the point of satire, so Hollywood has to go back in time to effectively mine new comedy from politics. Emmy-winning Veep writer Ian Martin will be going all the way back to 1986, with a new political satire on the historic meeting between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in a Cold War movie titled Tear Down This Wall.