After making their mark on HBO and AMC/Netflix with Game Of Thrones and Better Call Saul respectively, TV heavyweights Vince Gilligan and Michelle MacLaren are pairing up again for the first time since Breaking Bad.
Formerly serving as executive producers on AMC’s meth-centric mega-hit, the duo will be reuniting for Sony Pictures Television’s true-life story Raven. Octavia Spencer is joining them as the show’s third executive producer. Gilligan will also be on writing duties, with MacLaren in the director’s chair.
Raven will cast a beady eye over the life of Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple, a cult group who mixed politics with religion (and showed a wilful disregard for apostrophes). Sticking close to the group’s troubled history should prove an emotional rollercoaster. After its origins in 1950s Indiana, the cult began to cause problems in California, before Jones retreated to Guyana in the '70s. While in Jonestown, Jones and his followers found themselves mixed up in abuse allegations, which escalated to the murder of an American politician and many travelling with him. Later that day, Jim Jones and nearly one thousand of his followers committed mass suicide. As we said, not for the faint of heart.
There’s no word on a release date or casting for the limited series just yet.