HBO teams Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux for a Watergate limited series

Deadline

Harrelson and Theroux will respectively play notorious Watergate figures E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy in The White House Plumbers, a five-part limited series that counts former Veep showrunner David Mandel as one of its executive producers. Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck will write and Mandel will direct The White House Plumbers, which according to Deadline "is based part on public records and the book Integrity by Egil 'Bud' Krogh and Matthew Krogh. The series tells the true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt, played by Harrelson, and G. Gordon Liddy, played by Theroux, accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect." "We’re excited to bring together such a talented team to take on this fascinating look at the internal machinations that brought down the Nixon White House,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys. “We’re especially happy to welcome both Woody and Justin back to HBO and are looking forward to getting started.”