The director returns to a world with which he’s intimately familiar.

Before directing films like Gone Girl, The Social Network, Fight Club and Seven, David Fincher was a music video director who worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Paula Abdul, George Michael and more.

The budding music industry of the 1980s is the subject of Living On Video, a project based on an idea by Fincher, who is also expected to direct. HBO is developing the half-hour comedy, which is written by Rich Wilkes and Bob Stevenson.

The show is set in Los Angeles in 1983 and focuses on Bobby, “a wide-eyed guy who drops out of college and drives to Hollywood with dreams of directing a sci-fi epic” but ends up as a PA for a music video company. Deadline compares the behind-the-scenes setting to that of HBO’s entourage.

While the script has been completed, the pilot has not been officially greenlighted by HBO. However, it’s not the only music show in the works on the channel: Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter are producing a series about New York’s ’70s music scene.