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Jonestown Series From Bill Hader & Daniel Zelman In Development At HBO
A series about the Rev. Jim Jones, the charismatic cult leader behind the 1978 Jonestown massacre, from Bill Hader and Daniel Zelman is set at HBO.
Jim Jones, the charismatic cult leader behind the 1978 mass-murder suicide at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (aka Jonestown) in the Guyanese jungle, is in development at HBO, Deadline has confirmed. Jones had led his followers to Guyana from the U.S., promising them a utopian community, but his leadership became increasingly paranoid and controlling. Over the years, there have been several media depictions of the tragedy, including the 2007 History Channel documentary Jonestown: Paradise Lost, 2006 documentary film Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, the 1979 film Guyana: Cult of the Damned, based on the Jonestown tragedy and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a 1980 CBS miniseries based on the life of Jones and the Peoples Temple.
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