{"id":273112,"date":"2025-11-20T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273112\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:26:07","slug":"costner-to-play-clinton-in-united-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273112\/","title":{"rendered":"Costner To Play Clinton In &#8220;United&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/costner-to-play-clinton-in-united-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"Paramount Network\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/costner-to-play-clinton-in-united-series.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"costner-to-play-clinton-in-united-series\"\/><\/a>Paramount Network<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Costner is reportedly circling the role of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the political drama series \u201cUnited\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The series will center on a UN mission to East Timor in 1999.  Clinton negotiated with Indonesian officials to de-escalate the conflict with the UN-backed independence movement.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwudi Iwuji (\u201cPeacemaker,\u201d \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3\u201d) is being eyed to play UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.  East Timor officially became a sovereign nation in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Few films have been made about the East Timor conflict, the most notable being 2009 Australian film \u201cBalibo\u201d starring a young Oscar Isaac as Jose Ramos-Horta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNight Hunter\u201d director David Raymond will write and direct the series while Costner will executive-produce the series along with Leonardo DiCaprio. Appian Way, Onwards Studios and Prime Focus DNEG are backing the project.<\/p>\n<p>Still in the early development phase, the series is to be produced in association with the United Nations.  Raymond works with the UN\u2019s Creative Community Outreach Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Costner is coming off his struggling \u201cHorizon: An American Saga\u201d epic, which has only managed to properly release its first chapter.  The second, which screened at Venice last year, still awaits a theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/tv\/a69485807\/kevin-costner-bill-clinton-united-tv-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Esquire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/finchers-squid-game-targets-february-start\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fincher\u2019s \u201cSquid Game\u201d Targets February Start?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/first-photo-the-next-jumanji-movie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Photo: The Next \u201cJumanji\u201d Movie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Network Kevin Costner is reportedly circling the role of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the political&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94966,6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}