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Joel Kinnaman as real-life CIA officer John Nixon interrogates a defiant Saddam Hussein in the trailer for TNT’s High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam, the political thriller set to bow on Sept. 13.

Based on Nixon’s 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’s 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. 

“Where’s the WMDs?,” Nixon at one point in the trailer asks Hussein after his capture from a hole in late 2003. “Who are you? You are nothing?,” 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.   

The series adaptation’s 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. 

“TNT 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 – 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,” Jason Sarlanis, president of Turner Networks, said in a statement.

The series’ first two episodes will bow on Sept. 13, with new episodes to follow on subsequent Sunday and Monday evenings, ahead of an Oct. 4 finale on TNT.  The series is created by Daniel Stiepleman, who also wrote the script along with Jonathan Wakeham and Graham Sack

The executive producer credits are shared by Alexander Rodnyansky, Jason Sarlanis, Sam Linsky, Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Tamer Mortada and Greif.