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Gibney and Wright previously collaborated on the Emmy-nominated series <em>The Looming Tower<\/em> and the Emmy-winning documentary <em>Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief<\/em>, both of which were based on books written by Wright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime Documentary Films is partnering with Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright on a documentary feature that will explore U.S.-Saudi Arabia relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":12019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[194,3341,3342,131,3343],"class_list":["post-12018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-alex-gibney","tag-house-of-saud","tag-lawrence-wright","tag-showtime","tag-showtime-documentary-films","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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