Friends Reunion 2015: David Schwimmer To Play Kim Kardashian’s Dad In O.J Simpson Mini-Series

Friends Reunion 2015: All the former Friends who hung out at Central Perk are having a good year this year. Jennifer Aniston is riding high in the upcoming awards season for her role in "Cake," Lisa Kudrow has not just one, but two shows on premium cable, Courteney Cox is shopping around a series that would reunite the Friends women, Matt LeBlanc is making episodes of "Episodes," Matthew Perry found a new friend in The Odd Couple and now ... David Schwimmer has been cast as Robert Kardashian, Kim Kardashian's dad, in FX's 'American Crime Story.'


David Schwimmer was cast as Robert Kardashian Sr. opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. as the football hall of famer in O.J. Simpson's American Crime Story.


Friends star David Schwimmer joins the FX miniseries American Crime Story, which is being produced by American Horror Story and Glee creator Ryan Murphy. Murphy will direct the first episode, with production beginning early next year in L.A.


Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter "The O.J. case was as tragic as it was fascinating - it seemed like everyone had a stake in the outcome. This is an exciting project for me, as I've been looking for the right property which could serve as an extension of the American Horror Story brand I love so much." 


Schwimmer joins Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J. and Sarah Paulson from American Horror Story, who will play prosecutor Marcia Clark.


American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is based on Jeffrey Toobin's book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson.The series will dramatize the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial.


NFL hall of famer O. J. Simpson was found not guilty in the June 1994 deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman.
Robert Kardashian, who is the father of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, was on Simpson's defense team along with Robert Shapiro and the late Johnnie Cochran.


The mini-series will be a 10-episode project.


According to an FX press release, "the miniseries takes a look at the O.J. Simpson trial told from the perspective of the lawyers that explores the chaotic behind-the-scenes dealings and maneuvering on both sides of the court." In addition, it will examine how "a combination of prosecution confidence, defense wiliness, and the LAPD's history with the city's African-American community gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt."


This isn't Schwimmer's first outing playing a real-life person. He played a gangster in The Iceman, he played Capt. Herbert M. Sobel in HBO's WWII miniseries Band of Brothers and will star as Icchak Cukierman in the NBC TV movie Uprising.


Kardashian Sr. died in September 2003 from esophageal cancer at the age of 59. 


"American Crime Story" is produced by Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions. Production is slated to start in Los Angeles in 2015. 

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