Jeff Daniels has been cast as the lead in Hulu’s upcoming miniseries “The Looming Tower,” TheWrap has learned.
The “Newsroom” actor will play John O’Neill, who was the chief of New York’s FBI counter-terrorism unit before his death in the Sept. 11 attacks.
The 10-episode series will be adapted from “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” by Lawrence Wright, which looks at the way Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda came to power in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks. It also delves into governmental activities around the time, and how a rivalry between the FBI and the CIA could’ve partially led to the attacks.