Apple TV+ has ordered “Manhunt” from Monica Beletsky, the first series order under her recently renewed overall deal at the streaming service. Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”) will star on the limited series as Abraham Lincoln’s War Secretary, Edwin Stanton, who was nearly driven to madness by a desire to catch the president’s killer, John Wilkes Booth.
Beletsky, of “Fargo” and “Friday Night Lights” (the TV shows for both) will showrun and executive produce the true-crime series, which is based on the book (“Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer”) by James Swanson. Carl Franklin will serve as director and executive producer.