Showtime will develop a limited series of untitled The Comey Rule cohorts Billy Ray and Shane Salerno who will track down the events that led to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Trump supporters floated in frenzy through a speech by outgoing President Donald Trump, which pushed unsubstantiated claims of a stolen election. Joe Biden Trump’s successor. Some armed, others had a handcuff with zippers and others called for Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged for failing to bow to Trump’s desire to stop the election. The protesters were eventually repulsed by police when senators and congressmen were evacuated and forced to hide from perpetrators who came frighteningly close. Five died and more than 140 were injured in what incumbent President Biden called an uprising.
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Showtime ordered three screenplays for the untitled title about the events leading up to the January 6 attack. Ray will write and direct the series, and Salerno will be executive producer. They played those roles in the Comey mini, which became Showtime’s best-rated limited series ever when it aired in September. It was nominated for two Golden Globes and Jeff Daniels plays as the former FBI chief, James Comey, and Brendan Gleeson as Trump.
The limited series will examine and investigate several views of the events that led to the January 6 attack, including the last days of the Trump administration, and on the attack itself, the aftermath and the FBI and congressional investigations. The story is still unfolding and arrests of those who violated the Capitol and assaulted the police are still being made.
The series will be a Story Factory / Wink Pictures production, and Salerno, Josh McLaughlin and Ray will be the executive producers of it.
Ray’s recent credits include Richard Jewell, Captain Phillips, broken glass and Break.