It’s been a busy year for Ethan Hawke. The reality hurts the actor threatened Oscar Isaac in Marvel’s moon knight series, was part of The man from the northand starred in director Scott Derrickson’s latest horror film The black phone. For his latest project, however, Hawke finds himself behind the camera.

The latest movie stars is a six-part documentary exploring the relationship between Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, one of classic Hollywood’s most influential couples. As director, Hawke compiled archival footage of the cast and conducted new interviews with some of the couple’s children, as well as Sally Field and Martin Scorsese, both collaborated with the duo individually. Scorsese, who directed Newman’s Oscar-winning performance in The color of moneyis also an executive producer of the project.

The series completes a project Newman had planned before his death in 2008. Screenwriter Stewart Stern, who penned the actor’s first film in 1968 Rachel, Rachelhad interviewed the couple and friends such as Robert Redford, Elia Kazan, Gore Vidal and Sidney Lumet for Newman’s memoir, which was never published.

While the original audio recordings have been destroyed, actors such as Zoe, Kazan’s granddaughterOscar Isaac, Ewan McGregorVincent D’Onofrio, Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell provide voice-overs of interview transcripts, with George Clooney as Newman and Laura Linney as Woodward. The new trailer for The latest movie stars reveals Hawke’s vision of turning the transcriptions into “a game with voices”.

Newman and Woodward co-starred in a number of films, including Paris Blues, The drowning pool, From the terrace, and The long hot summer. Besides their individual talents, they have been acclaimed for bringing their real-life chemistry to the screen. The couple have been married for 50 years.

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Hawke previously directed the documentary Seymour: An Introduction in 2014. He’s also helmed features including Flambé and The hottest state. Later this year he will be seen in Glass onion: a mystery at loggerheads.

The six episodes of The latest movie stars launching on HBO Max on July 21.