{"id":622304,"date":"2026-08-05T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622304\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:08:11","slug":"watch-high-value-target-the-hunt-for-saddam-hussein-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622304\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch ‘High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam’ Hussein Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJoel Kinnaman<\/a> as real-life CIA officer John Nixon interrogates a defiant Saddam Hussein in the trailer<\/a> for TNT<\/a>\u2019s High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam, the political thriller set to bow on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Nixon\u2019s memoir Debriefing the President, the eight-part drama centers on the capture and questioning of Hussein, played by Baghdad Central actor Waleed Zuaiter, after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the search for their former Iraqi leader\u2019s destructive weaponry. Nixon and U.S. soldiers in Iraq took part in a massive manhunt for Hussein after he lost power, one that included a $25 million bounty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhere\u2019s the WMDs?,\u201d Nixon at one point in the trailer asks Hussein after his capture from a hole in late 2003. \u201cWho are you? You are nothing?,\u201d the defiant Iraqi leader responds, putting Nixon under a microscope with his superiors to see if he can break Hussein and produce the weapons of mass destruction that underpinned the rationale for launching the Middle East military invasion in the first place. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series adaptation\u2019s ensemble cast includes Lena Gora, Rebecca Night, Ewan Miller, Tom Berenger, Matt Barr, Paul Ryan, Christopher McDonald, Dar Salim and Talia Balsam. High Value Target is co-written and directed by Leslie Greif and produced by AR Content and Big Dreams Entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTNT has always been home to bold, character-driven drama, and High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam is exactly that. John Nixon found himself in a singular position at a pivotal moment in modern history \u2013 face-to-face with Saddam Hussein as the world sought answers about a war that would reshape the Middle East. More than two decades later, the consequences of that moment still reverberate through global geopolitics, and in Joel Kinnaman, we found the perfect actor to bring this extraordinary story to life,\u201d Jason Sarlanis, president of Turner Networks, said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe series\u2019 first two episodes will bow on\u00a0Sept. 13, with new episodes to follow on subsequent Sunday and Monday evenings, ahead of an Oct. 4 finale on TNT.\u00a0 The series is created by Daniel Stiepleman, who also wrote the script along with Jonathan Wakeham and Graham Sack<\/p>\n

\n\tThe executive producer credits are shared by Alexander Rodnyansky, Jason Sarlanis, Sam Linsky, Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Tamer Mortada and Greif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Kinnaman as real-life CIA officer John Nixon interrogates a defiant Saddam Hussein in the trailer for TNT\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,42281,327,262897,5587,1983],"class_list":["post-622304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joel-kinnaman","tag-movies","tag-tnt","tag-trailer","tag-trailers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622304","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=622304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}