Jay Roach directed Bryan Cranston.
All the Way is a 2016 American HBO biographical TV drama film based on events of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson , directed by Jay Roach and adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his play with the same title . The film stars Bryan Cranston , who reprises his role as Johnson from the play 's 2014 Broadway production , opposite Melissa Leo as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson ; Anthony Mackie as Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King , Jr. ; and Frank Langella as US Senator Richard Russell Jr. , from Georgia . Bryan Cranston . He reprised his role in the television film of the same name , which debuted on HBO in May 2016 .