Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s new HBO show Raven will focus on cult leader Jim Jones

The series will chart the rise and fall of the ‘Jonestown’ community
New project: Vince Gilligan is executive producing Raven for HBO
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Ben Travis12 September 2016

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has kept himself busy working on spin-off Better Call Saul, but he’s also attached to a new project.

The mastermind behind AMC’s gripping drug saga is set to executive produce a new TV series titled Raven.

The show will focus on cult leader Jim Jones, whose following the Peoples Temple famously committed mass suicide in 1978.

It will be based on Tim Reiterman’s book Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People.

Gilligan will write the opening episode, with Michelle MacLaren – who directed several episodes of Breaking Bad, as well as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead – is on board to direct.

Also executive producing the series will be actress Octavia Spencer, who optioned the book several years ago, but will not be acting in the adaptation.

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Raven will be a limited series and is set to air on HBO.

Better Call Saul, focusing on the pre-Breaking Bad exploits of lawyer Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman), has aired two seasons, with a third confirmed.

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