Having starred as several historical figures, including Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, a district attorney probing John F Kennedy's assassination in JFK, and the titular role in Wyatt Earp, Kevin Costner is close to landing yet another historical figure: Bill Clinton. A TV series, United, centred around the UN mission to East Timor in 1999, has Costner and Leonardo DiCaprio serving as executive producers. Additionally, Chukwudi Iwuji is rumored to portray the former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
The project is produced by Appian Way, Onwards Studios, Prime Focus DNEG, and the United Nations.
The series is written and directed by the Night Hunter helmer David Raymond, who has partnered with the UN on its Creative Community Outreach Initiative during the tenure of Ban Ki-Moon as the UN Secretary General.
United revolves around the events after the uprising in East Timor in 1999, following the UN's independence referendum on whether the region wishes to remain within Indonesia or become a sovereign state. Clinton's administration played a crucial role in the de-escalation measures, which included liaising with the leaders of Portugal (East Timor was a Portuguese colony) and Australia.
