Challenge to the president, Trump vs Comey on the eve of the US vote

(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 09 - A few weeks before the American presidential elections, in a double and awaited prime-time event on October 12 and 13 on Sky Atlantic and streaming on Now Tv arrives in Italy Challenge to the president - The Comey Rule, based laminiserie on A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, andLeadership, the memoir (at number 1 on the New York Times chart) of James Comey, former director of the FBI.

    In an adaptation signed by Billy Ray (Captain Phillips - Offshore Attack, The Fable Inventor), who is a screenwriter and director of the project, the series tells from Comey's point of view the events that led to his departure from Bureau at the hands of Donald Trump, strongly critical of his handling of politically incendiary investigations such as the Email-gate first - against Hillary Clinton - and then Russiagate, which involved Trump.

    A two-part, two-hour Showtime political drama starring a cast led by two-time Emmy Award winner for The Newsroom Jeff Daniels as Comey and BrendanGleeson (In Bruges - The Conscience of the Murderer, Mr. Mercedes) in those of the current tenant of the White House.

The series tells of the turbulent relationship between two extremely powerful men who will come to clash, divided by personalities, ethics and loyalties that could not be more different.

    Also starring Michael Kelly (House of Cards) as former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe;

Holly Hunter (Piano Lessons) who plays former Justice Minister Sally Yates, nominated by Obama and by Trump removed because she has a hard line with the president on the anti-immigration ban;

Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty) as Comey's wife Patrice;

Scoot McNairy (Halt and CatchFire) as former Deputy Minister of Justice and supervisor of Russiagate investigation Rod Rosenstein; Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul) as former National Intelligence chief James Clapper;

Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones, Taboo) as former FBI attorney Lisa Page and Amy Seimetz (The Girlfriend Experience) as Trisha Anderson, number two of the FBI's Office of General Counsel.

   (HANDLE).