{"id":188287,"date":"2025-11-19T03:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:55:11","slug":"kevin-costner-in-talks-to-play-bill-clinton-in-united-nations-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188287\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner in Talks to Play Bill Clinton in United Nations Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kevin-costner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kevin-costner\" data-tag=\"kevin-costner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Costner<\/a> is circling the role of former U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bill-clinton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bill-clinton\" data-tag=\"bill-clinton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a> in the political drama series \u201cUnited.\u201d Sources confirm the project is in early development and is to be produced in association with the United Nations. Costner will executive-produce the series along with Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNight Hunter\u201d director David Raymond will helm and pen the series, which will tell true stories of heroism and perseverance by humanitarians in pursuit of making the world a better place for all. Producers for \u201cUnited\u201d include Appian Way, Onwards Studios and Prime Focus DNEG. Fifth Season serves as the distributor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRaymond is a known collaborator of the UN\u2019s Creative Community Outreach Initiative. He hosted a dinner in 2016 for industry leaders on behalf of the organization. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCostner most recently served as director, co-writer, producer and star of \u201cHorizon: An American Saga \u2013 Chapter 1,\u201d the first part in his sprawling four-part film epic on the American frontier. \u201cChapter 1\u201d premiered at Cannes in 2024 before hitting theaters that June. \u201cChapter 2\u201d premiered at Venice last year and is awaiting a timeline for theatrical release. The Oscar winner also led Taylor Sheridan\u2019s contemporary Western series \u201cYellowstone,\u201d which ran for five seasons until 2024 on Paramount Networks. Costner earned a Golden Globe for best actor in a drama series for his portrayal of Montana rancher John Dutton. He left the show partway through Season 5. His upcoming projects include \u201cHoneymoon with Harry,\u201d \u201cHorizon: An American Saga \u2013 Chapter 3,\u201d and \u201cHeadhunters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCostner is repped by WME and Jeffer, Mangels, Butler &amp; Marmaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner is circling the role of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the political drama series \u201cUnited.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[4749,434,18,117,19,17,7729],"class_list":{"0":"post-188287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bill-clinton","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kevin-costner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115574349754437551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}