Showtime has released the official trailer for its upcoming two-part limited series The Comey Rule, starring Jeff Daniels as former FBI Director James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump.
The two-part series will premiere on consecutive nights – Sunday, September 27 and Monday, September 28 – at 9pm ET / PT.
The Comey Rule is based on Comey’s number one New York Times bestseller book A higher marriage, along with more than a year of interviews on key topics conducted by director and screenwriter Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, Shattered Glass). The two-part series follows the events behind the scenes leading up to the 2016 election and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of Trump and the FBI director that he would eventually set fire to.
In addition to Daniels and Gleeson, The Comey Rule also starring Holly Hunter as former acting attorney general Sally Yates, Michael Kelly as former FBI director Andrew McCabe, Jennifer Ehle as Comey’s wife Patrice Failor, Scott McNairy as former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, Jonathan Banks as former National Intelligence- director James Clapper, Oona Chaplin as former FBI attorney Lisa Page, Amy Seimetz as former FBI attorney Trisha Anderson, Steven Pasquale as former FBI agent Peter Strzok, Peter Coyote as former FBI director and special adviser Robert Mueller and Kingsley Ben- Adir as former President Barack Obama.
