Miniseries on Trump’s victory

ALMOST two months after Donald Trump’s arrival at the White House, HBO has announced an upcoming miniseries based on the 2016 American presidential campaign, with Tom Hanks ( right) signed up to produce.

HBO has previous experience when it comes to electionthemed productions.

The network’s 2008 TV movie Recount explored the 2000 US election, which saw George W. Bush defeat Al Gore.

Four years later, the HBO film Game Change focused on Republican candidate John McCain’s campaign and his vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Jay Roach has once again been signed up to direct. Roach has directed various projects for the network, including last year’s All the Way, a political TV movie about US President Lyndon Johnson, which starred Bryan Cranston, who also featured in Roach’s movie Dalton Trumbo.

It also remains to be seen which actors will be stepping into the shoes of Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the smallscreen series.

Could Alec Baldwin, who has often parodied the current US president in the TV show Saturday Night Live, be ready to accept the role?

And which actress could play his rival, who will also be portrayed in the third season of American Crime Story, focusing on the Monica Lewinsky affair, a scandal that curtailed Bill Clinton’s presidency and affected his family in the 1990s?

HBO has previously enlisted Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris and Sarah Paulson to relive the 2000 and 2008 presidential elections in TV format. – AFP-Relaxnews