The LA Times reports the new animated series in which self-mythologizing movie producer Robert Evans lends his voice to an animated version of himself, will premiere tonight at 10:30.
Evans, who is 73, is nowadays more famous for having been famous. He was good-looking enough to have been discovered twice by Hollywood; he married movie stars and beauty queens; and for about a decade he either produced or oversaw the production of a string of fine films, including “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Godfather” “Chinatown” and “Urban Cowboy,” before drugs and other bad choices effectively ended his run and blackened his reputation.
In “Kid Notorius” Evans is drawn as his younger, haler self (albeit with an enormous head and the physique of a marionette), living in a world where he still matters, he is cast here as an operator, a con artist, a sage, an action hero.
Brett Morgen, Evans and head writers Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland (both from Fox’s “King of the Hill”) are the cartoon’s executive producers.