The Looming Tower (miniseries)

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The Looming Tower
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Genre
Created by
Based on The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright
Starring
ComposerWill Bates
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Production locations New York City
Johannesburg
Morocco
Cinematography
Editors
  • Daniel A. Valverde
  • Meg Reticker
  • Joe Hobeck
Running time46–51 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network Hulu
ReleaseFebruary 28 (2018-02-28) –
April 18, 2018 (2018-04-18)

The Looming Tower is an American drama television miniseries, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name, which premiered on Hulu on February 28, 2018. The 10-episode drama series was created and executive produced by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, and Wright. Futterman also acted as the series's showrunner and Gibney directed the first episode. The series stars an ensemble cast featuring Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Peter Sarsgaard.

Contents

Premise

The Looming Tower traces the "rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. It follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., the counter-terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal – trying to prevent an imminent attack on U.S. soil." [1]

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Guest

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"Now It Begins..." Alex Gibney Story by : Dan Futterman & Alex Gibney & Lawrence Wright
Teleplay by : Dan Futterman		February 28, 2018 (2018-02-28)
In August 1998, FBI agent Ali Soufan is asked to join John O'Neill's counterterrorism unit known as "I-49". As the squad fights to get information out of the CIA, the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed.
2"Losing My Religion" John Dahl Story by : Dan Futterman & Alex Gibney & Lawrence Wright
Teleplay by : Dan Futterman		February 28, 2018 (2018-02-28)
Following the concurrent embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the FBI begins to investigate in Africa, while the CIA begins to devise a plan to strike back.
3"Mistakes Were Made"John Dahl Bash Doran February 28, 2018 (2018-02-28)
Shaughnessy and Bennett capture Mohamad al-Owhali, who confesses to bombing the U.S. embassy in Nairobi after being interrogated by Chesney. O'Neill and Soufan search the home of a second suspect, Anas al-Liby, but do not have enough evidence to hold him. Stuart's minimal clearance at the CIA prevents them from building a stronger case. Schmidt convinces the President to retaliate by bombing an al-Qaeda training camp in Khost, Afghanistan.
4"Mercury" Ali Selim Adam Rapp March 7, 2018 (2018-03-07)
I-49 obtains the phone number of Ahmed al-Hada, but their tap on the phone is taken over by the CIA. Alec Station learns of the Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit from this, but Schmidt clashes with his superiors over their reluctance to commit to further airstrikes. Schmidt is demoted leaving Marsh in charge of Alec Station.
5"Y2K"Ali SelimShannon HoustonMarch 14, 2018 (2018-03-14)
Events continue through New Year's Eve and the transition past a potential coordinated terrorist attack to coincide with Year 2000 problem ("Y2K").
6"Boys at War" Michael Slovis Dan FuttermanMarch 21, 2018 (2018-03-21)
In Afghanistan, al-Zawahiri recruits Mohamed Atta to lead a hijacking on US soil. He also sends a young boy, who is a survivor of Operation Infinite Reach, to meet with two associates in Yemen. The three of them carry out the USS Cole bombing. O'Neill has his briefcase stolen while attending a mandatory retirement seminar in Florida and confesses the potential security breach to the bureau.
7"The General"Michael SlovisAli SelimMarch 28, 2018 (2018-03-28)
O'Neill and Soufan travel to Yemen to investigate the bombing of Cole and are able to implicate Tawfiq bin Attash, one of the architects of the Malaysia meeting. Marsh refuses to reveal Attash's last known whereabouts when Marino asks her. She hides the surveillance photos of al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, fearing their eventual discovery by the FBI.
8"A Very Special Relationship" Craig Zisk Bash DoranApril 4, 2018 (2018-04-04)
The FBI has O'Neill removed from Yemen at the request of Ambassador Bodine. Soufan stays behind and learns about the link to Malaysia. After several co-workers confront her, Marsh agrees to start sharing intelligence if the FBI can prove that it already knows enough to identify al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi. Sanchez learns of an upcoming New York Times story about a stolen briefcase containing classified documents and fires O'Neill to save face.
9"Tuesday"Craig ZiskAdam RappApril 11, 2018 (2018-04-11)
After learning that a man has been flagged for ignoring the landing component of a flying lesson, I-49 requests a list of Arabs enrolled in American flight schools who have other aggravating factors. Marsh complies but obfuscates the fact that two of the men in her file are known al-Qaeda operatives. O'Neill starts working at the World Trade Center, while Atta's al-Qaeda cell decides to finalize its plans.
10"9/11"Craig ZiskDan Futterman & Ali SelimApril 18, 2018 (2018-04-18)
Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, various members of O'Neill's squad try to get in contact with him. Meanwhile, Schmidt is reassigned back into his old position at Alec Station, and Soufan is finally given access to Abu Jandal and begins to interrogate him to confirm that al-Qaeda was behind the attacks. During the 9/11 Commission hearings, Marsh lies in her testimony regarding the handling of the Hazmi and Mihdhar files to save her own face.

Production

Development

The project emanated from Ali Soufan and Lawrence Wright's realization that both of them were fielding offers from various studios and production companies regarding the rights to their books about the lead-up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The pair met with filmmaker Alex Gibney, who had already adapted Wright's one-man show, My Trip to Al-Qaeda and book Going Clear for HBO. Wright said about the collaborations with Gibney, "He's a documentarian, and he understands the importance of truth. We've been in the trenches. I came to trust him, and that's what I wanted — someone I felt could handle and negotiate these really difficult moral questions." Following that partnership, the team began to interview potential showrunners. They soon landed on screenwriter Dan Futterman after one meeting, and then decided to work on their pitch for the series. [3] After refining their pitch, they approached HBO, Netflix and Amazon with the project. As a courtesy, they also reached out to Hulu without really placing them into consideration due to the perception of the streaming service as merely a place to stream episodes of network television shows. However, during their meeting with Hulu they were offered a straight-to-series order, an abbreviated development process, a promise not to cave under pressure from the federal agencies portrayed in the series, and the largest financial commitment of any service or network they had previously met with. It was due to these terms and conditions that the producers ultimately decided to sign with the company. [4]

During pre-production, producers spent months doing exhaustive homework. This involved interviewing the real-life counterparts of the characters they were bringing to life, including Ali Soufan and his wife; former National Security Council chief counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke; former and current members of the FBI's I-49 squad; and former members of the CIA. [5] Futterman has mentioned that in addition to adapting Wright's book, the series also drew from Soufan's book The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda and the 9/11 Commission Report. [6]

In September 2016, Hulu ordered The Looming Tower to series from Legendary Television with executive producers including Alex Gibney, Dan Futterman, and Lawrence Wright. It was announced that the limited series would consist of ten episodes and premiere in 2017. [7] It was later reported that Craig Zisk was also an executive producer for the series and would be directing as well. [8] Ultimately, five different directors were chosen to helm the series' ten episodes: Zisk, Michael Slovis, John Dahl, Ali Selim and Alex Gibney. The show's first episode was directed by Gibney, episodes six and seven were directed by Slovis, and episodes eight, nine, and ten were directed by Zisk. The series' story requires multiple international locations with the first five episodes having scenes that are set in seven countries and ten cities. Early on in the development process, Zisk and Gibney went on several international location scouting missions, in order to give their fellow directors options to pick from for filming. [9]

Casting

In January 2017, it was announced that Tahar Rahim was cast in one of the series' lead roles as Ali Soufan. [10] In February 2017, Michael Stuhlbarg and Bill Camp were announced as series regulars and cast as Richard Clarke and Robert Chesney, respectively. [11] In March 2017, Jeff Daniels was cast as John O'Neill. [12] Also announced that month were the castings of Sullivan Jones, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Peter Sarsgaard, and Wrenn Schmidt and Ella Rae Peck as series regulars. [13] [14] [15] In May 2017, Alec Baldwin was cast as George Tenet in a guest role. [16]

After being cast as the late O'Neill, Jeff Daniels struggled on how to approach playing the role. He ultimately credits significant research he did involving speaking with those who knew O'Neill. At one point, he spent an evening at a bar in Lower Manhattan with ten of O'Neill's colleagues, who'd worked with him for years. He commented, "I had a great meeting with those guys, walked out to the corner, turned to get a cab and there's the World Trade Center. To feel him, you need the spirit of what John is fighting for." [5]

Filming

The series began filming on May 3, 2017 in New York City [16] and it was expected that shooting would take place in a number of locations around the world. [17] Ultimately, the production lasted six months and sprawled across three continents and six countries. [5] Various places stood-in for the locales in which the story actually took place. For instance, scenes set in Yemen were filmed in Morocco, and drone and car travel shots of Pakistani landscapes were used to evoke Afghanistan. Johannesburg, South Africa served as the production base, and was where the bulk of filming took place. The city possessed the "visual variety" that the producers were seeking, and doubled for various places including Nairobi, Tanzania, England, Albania, and Las Vegas, Nevada. [9] While there was an initial push to shoot the production all in South Africa, Zisk argued for filming the back half in Morocco. In August 2017, filming took place at the River Café in Brooklyn. [9]

Production designer Lester Cohen credits Wright's and Gibney's list of contacts and the production's research team for allowing him to gather the material needed to recreate various settings. During the design period, a set dresser shared photos of his tour in Afghanistan and an art coordinator's daughter dove into the newspaper archives in Nairobi to help re-create the bombing site of the 1998 embassy attacks. Those details informed the design of the huge rubble pile that shut down the central business district in Cape Town for weeks. Also, as much of the story that takes place in the United States occurs in offices, practical sets were built, including Alec Station and the FBI office in New York. [5]

Release

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Marketing

On December 19, 2017, Hulu released the first preview of the series through a collection of images and a "first-look" video featuring interviews with the cast and crew. [18] On January 11, 2018, Hulu released the first official trailer for the series. [19]

(L-R) Mark Updegrove, Lawrence Wright, Michael Stuhlbarg and Ali Soufan following a screening at the LBJ Presidential Library. DIG14239-148.jpg
(L–R) Mark Updegrove, Lawrence Wright, Michael Stuhlbarg and Ali Soufan following a screening at the LBJ Presidential Library.

Premiere

On February 13, 2018, The Washington Post held a screening of the first episode. Following the screening, journalist David Ignatius moderated a question-and-answer session with Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Wrenn Schmidt, Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright, and Ali Soufan. [20] [21]

On February 15, 2018, the series had its official premiere at The Paris Theatre in New York City. [22] On February 20, 2018, the series held its international premiere during the annual Berlin International Film Festival at the Zoo Palast cinema in Berlin. [23] [24]

On February 27, 2018, the LBJ Presidential Library held a screening of the first episode. Following the screening, LBJ Foundation president Mark K. Updegrove moderated a question-and-answer session with Lawrence Wright, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Ali Soufan. [25] On May 1, 2018, episodes 1 and 2 were screened during the Series Mania Festival at the Le Majestic cinema in Lille, France. It appeared alongside seven other television programs in the festival's "Best of USA" series of shows. [26] [27]

Distribution

In all regions outside the United States, the series is distributed by Amazon Video. [28] The series premiered on March 1, 2018, in the United Kingdom and subsequent episodes were released weekly for the following seven weeks, [29] The series began airing weekly on April 26, 2019, on BBC Two, with catch-up availability on iPlayer. [30] In Germany and Austria, the series premiered on March 9, 2018. [31]

Home media

The Looming Tower was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 18, 2018. The set includes four behind-the-scenes featurettes and audio commentaries on the premiere and finale episodes. [32]

Reception

Critical response

The Looming Tower was met with a positive response from critics. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an 88% approval rating with an average rating of 7.4 out of 10 based on 60 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Well-acted and powerfully written, The Looming Tower delivers gripping counter-terrorism drama rendered even more soberingly effective through its roots in real-life events." [33] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 74 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [34]

The Washington Post 's Hank Stuever praised the series for its "coolly fascinating pace and tenor" and commented that "Tahar Rahim gives a smart and sincere performance as Ali Soufan, a Muslim American agent on O'Neill's squad." [35] The Hollywood Reporter 's Daniel Fienberg offered the series praise saying, "The Looming Tower demands a hasty combination of faith in the storytellers and half-forgotten knowledge of the history. Absent that, the series is essentially like a well-shot, brilliantly cast, fast-moving season of Homeland , which is better than the actual current season of Homeland." [36] In a positive review, Variety 's Maureen Ryan said that the show was an "accessible, illuminating series that does not downplay the petty and tragic elements of the tale." [37] Time 's Daniel D'Addario commended the show as "a series that's both gripping and relevant. It succeeds, with a project that restages the years before Sept. 11 and tells a darkly ironic story about the fecklessness of government." [38] In a more negative review, Collider 's Chris Cabin criticized the series calling it "a middling act of didacticism, an attempt to pass off facts as insight and characters as little more than the sum of their intellect. Rather than tracing the complicated personalities and ludicrous dick-measuring contests that led to Al-Qaeda carrying out the biggest terrorist attack in American history, Gibney, Wright, and the rest of the creative team boil down the personal drama to little more than a series of arguments and discussions in offices at varying volumes." [39]

Awards and nominations

AwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
70th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Jeff Daniels Nominated [40] [41]
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Michael Stuhlbarg Nominated
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special Craig Zisk (for "9/11")Nominated
70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series, Movie or Special Avy Kaufman, Leo Davis, Lissy Holm, & Moonyeenn Lee Nominated [40] [42]
9th Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television Peter Sarsgaard Nominated [43]
34th Artios Awards Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Pilot and First Season – DramaAvy KaufmanNominated [44]
71st Writers Guild of America Awards Television: Long Form – Adapted Bash Doran, Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney,
Shannon Houston, Adam Rapp, Ali Selim, & Lawrence Wright		Nominated [45]
23rd Satellite Awards Best Miniseries The Looming TowerNominated [46] [47]
Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Jeff DanielsNominated

Potential sequel

It has been reported that if the limited series is sufficiently successful, a sequel series could possibly be ordered. Early discussions among the producers have begun; their concept revolves around the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood. [5]

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