Mark Boal, Megan Ellison to show 2016 election in mini series

Filmmaker Mark Boal and producer Megan Ellison, already frequent collaborators, are planning to tackle the 2016 presidential election in a new political mini-series.

The two said they don't have a broadcast partner as yet, but their plan is to develop the series through Boal's Page 1 company, in which Ellison is a partner, reported Deadline.

Boal best known as the writer and producer of films including Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," "The Hurt Locker" and upcoming Detroit riots drama expects to make his debut as a director on the new political series.

Hugo Lindgren, a former editor of the New York Times magazine who now is president of Page 1, is assembling a group of investigative journalists in New York and Washington DC as contributors to the project. Boal expects to write a script for the series.

Ellison has worked closely with Boal on "Zero Dark Thirty", the "Detroit" film and season 2 of the podcast "Serial", which examined the case of the returned American prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl, who was charged with desertion.

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