Kevin Costner Eyeing To Play Bill Clinton In United Nations TV Series From Appian Way – The Dish

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winners Kevin Costner and Leonardo DiCaprio are teaming to exec produce United, a TV series in early development that will be produced in collaboration with the United Nations, sources tell Deadline. Centered on a UN mission to East Timor in 1999, the show has Costner negotiating to play former U.S. President Bill Clinton, we’re told. Also eyeing to star, we hear, is Chukwudi Iwuji (Play Dirty), who would play UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

The project is written and will be directed by David Raymond (Night Hunter), who partnered with the UN’s Creative Community Outreach Initiative during the tenure of previous UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon and has been working with them ever since, unearthing true stories that highlight the power of shared humanity. It’s being approached as an ongoing series dramatizing true stories of the courage and sacrifice that humanitarian staff continuously make around the world.