Showtime has set a November premiere date over two nights for its $40 million limited series “The Comey Rule” which stars Brendan Gleeson as U.S. President Donald Trump.
Jeff Daniels plays former FBI Director James Comey in a series looking at the deterioration of their relationship that quickly became a bitter feud when Comey left his post after Trump fired him.
Showtime calls it an “immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation” along with the strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties of the two men. The first image from the series can be seen above.
The series also stars Holly Hunter as former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, Michael Kelly as former FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Jennifer Ehle as Patrice Comey, Scoot McNairy as former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Jonathan Banks as former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, Oona Chaplin as former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Amy Seimetz as former FBI lawyer Trisha Anderson, Steven Pasquale as former FBI agent Peter Strzok, Peter Coyote as Robert Mueller and Kingsley Ben-Adir as President Barack Obama.
The project is an adaptation of Comey’s book “A Higher Loyalty” and the mini-series surprisingly arrives just after the upcoming presidential elections rather than before or during.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Billy Ray (“Captain Phillips,” “Shattered Glass”) pens and directs the series which has been executive produced by Shane Salerno, Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin and Ray for CBS Studios.
Source: People
