Philip Seymour Hoffman Developing HBO Series 'Upstate'

Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of those actors who shows up in just about everything, from "The Big Lebowski" to "Doubt" to "The Invention of Lying." Now, Hoffman is holding the reins for a new HBO drama series, "Upstate."

Hoffman is developing the show with his production company Copper's Town Productions and Entertainment One. The show looks to be a prison drama of sorts, following a family man named Roy Perkins who begins work at a private, for-profit prison in rural America after being laid off from his job.

Brett C. Leonard, who wrote on the HBO series "Hung," and Bob Glaudini, who worked with Hoffman in writing the screenplay for "Jack Goes Boating," worked together on writing the series. The show seems as though it might tackle the issue of private prisons and whether or not they're a good idea, as the logline reads "As the town and his family prosper, Roy encounters conflict and danger inside and outside the prison walls."

Hoffman recently starred in HBO's TV movie "Empire Falls," so this won't be his first original content project with the "True Blood" network.