HBO has finally released the teaser trailer for the highly anticipated American political drama White House Plumbers. The series focuses on America’s infamous and highly publicized Watergate scandal, which ended in President Richard Nixon’s resignation. The events will unfold over five episodes, with the show set to be released in March 2023.
Per the HBO official logline, the limited series will tell the true story of how Richard Nixon’s political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy accidentally toppled the presidency they were zealously trying to protect. Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux lead the miniseries as E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively. White House Plumbers is based on public records and the 2007 novel Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House by Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh. Take a look at the latest trailer for the upcoming HBO series below.
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Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck are the creators, writers, and executive producers of White House Plumbers. They are joined by Veep’s showrunner David Mandel, who is directing and executive producing alongside the duo. Additional executive producers include Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Frank Rich, David Bernad, Gregg Fienberg, Len Amato, and Ruben Fleischer. The series is an HBO co-production with wiip, The District, and Crash&Savage.
The scandalous political drama features a sizable cast full of stars, including Lena Headey (Dorothy Hunt), Judy Greer (Fran Liddy), Domhnall Gleeson (John Dean), Toby Huss (James McCord), Ike Barinholtz (Jeb Magruder), Kathleen Turner (Dita Beard), Kim Coates (Frank Sturgis), Yul Vazquez (Bernard “Macho” Barker), Alexis Valdés (Felipe De Diego), Nelson Ascencio (Virgilio “Villo” Gonzalez), Tony Plana (Eugenio “Muscolito” Martinez), Zoe Levin (Lisa Hunt), Liam James (Saint John Hunt), Kiernan Shipka (Kevan Hunt), Tre Ryder (David Hunt), David Krumholtz (William O. Bittman), F. Murray Abraham (Judge Sirica) and John Carroll Lynch (John Mitchell).
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Why White House Plumbers Will Be Different from Other Watergate-Themed Cinema
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of America’s most notorious political scandals, Watergate, which began with the June 17th, 1972 break-in. The event became a televised public affair and eventually spawned multiple films and series recounting the spectacle. Alan J. Pakula’s All The President’s Men is one of the most recognizable from this category, with the film following Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s journalistic investigation into the scandal for The Washington Post. Other notable films from this genre include Nixon, The Final Days, and the comedic satire Dick, starring Reese Witherspoon and Michelle Williams as teenage Watergate whistleblowers.
Despite tackling a rehashed subject matter, White House Plumbers offers audiences a new vantage point into the well-known event. When speaking on the series’ differences to Indiewire, David Mandel said:
“In most of the Watergate movies ever made, basically the burglary is the opening scene. You see flashes of the burglary, and then it’s people in the Oval Office, [President Richard] Nixon, and the reporters at the Washington Post. This is a limited series where it is 100 percent about the burglary. We’re going to meet these guys before the burglary, and we’re going to see the effects of the burglary on their lives. This is the story that none of these other [stories] bothered with, to some extent.”
Given Mandel, Alex Gregory, and Peter Huyck all worked on the HBO Emmy-winner Veep; assumptions could be made that the political drama might have a more heightened comedic tone like the trio’s predecessor. However, However, Mandel reaffirms that the show maintains its root as a drama, but there are funny moments. “We definitely walk a really fine line. This show doesn’t have jokes. There’s no jokes. However, there’s a lot of funny stuff because [that’s how it] happened.”
White House Plumbers will arrive early next year, premiering on HBO in March 2023.
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