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Bill Hader to co-write and hopefully star in Jonestown TV show

Bill Hader to co-write and hopefully star in Jonestown TV show

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Apr 23, 2025
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Who better than comedian Bill Hader to star as Jim Jones in a TV show about the cult leader and his doomed "agricultural project" in Guyana?

Variety has learned exclusively that Hader and Daniel Zelman are currently developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the infamous events at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, a.k.a. Jonestown.

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