The Looming Tower to Air on BBC Two

BBC Two has acquired The Looming Tower, based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book about the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s.

The ten-part series looks at how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. The Looming Tower stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp and Louis Cancelmi, among others.

The Looming Tower is executive produced by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright, Craig Zisk and Adam Rapp. It is a Legendary Television production for Hulu in the U.S.