EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Kevin Costner and Leonardo DiCaprio are teaming to exec produce United , a TV series in early development that will be produced in collaboration with the United Nations, sources tell Deadline. Centered on a UN mission to East Timor in 1999, the show has Costner negotiating to play former U.S. President Bill Clinton , we’re told. Also eyeing to star, we hear, is Chukwudi Iwuji ( Play Dirty ), who will play UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

The project is written and will be directed by David Raymond ( Night Hunter ), who partnered with the UN’s Creative Community Outreach Initiative during the tenure of previous UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon and has been working with them ever since, unearthing true stories that highlight the power of shared humanit

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