Watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt as former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in new TV show teaser
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is pumped. In fact, he's super pumped, taking on the role of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in a limited series from Showtime that debuts February 27th, 2022 and will chart the chaotic rise of the transportation startup.
The show is titled Super Pumped after the best-selling non-fiction book of the same name from New York Times journalist Mike Isaac. It's been developed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, co-creators of Billions, a series which revels in the pugnacious behavior of the super-rich. There'll be lots of familiar material for Koppelman and Levien in Kalanick's story, then, with the former CEO described aptly in the trailer as the notorious bad boy of tech" (those words spoken by Uma Thurman, who's...