Until the September 11th attacks, the tragedy in Jonestown on November 18th, 1978 represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event. It is unfathomable now, as it was then, that more than 900 Americans – members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple – died after drinking poison at the urging of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, in a secluded South American jungle settlement. Photographs taken after the carnage forever document the sheer enormity of the event: the bodies of hundreds of people, including children,...
- 5/30/2020
- by David Chiu
- Rollingstone.com
Move over, Walter White. Deadline reports Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is developing a limited series for HBO called Raven.Based on the nonfiction book by Tim Reiterman, the drama will chronicle infamous cult leader Jim Jones, who founded the Peoples Temple and is responsible for the 1978 mass murder-suicide of nearly 1,000 people in Jonestown, Guyana.Read More…...
- 9/13/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has teamed with HBO for a new drama titled Raven, based on cult leader Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at the Peoples Temple, or "Jonestown," in Guyana.
For the series, Gilligan will reunite with Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones director Michelle MacLaren, with Gilligan on board to pen the pilot episode. Actress Octavia Spencer, who initially secured the rights to Raven's source material – Tim Reiterman's nonfiction Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People – serves as executive producer, The Hollywood Reporter writes.
For the series, Gilligan will reunite with Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones director Michelle MacLaren, with Gilligan on board to pen the pilot episode. Actress Octavia Spencer, who initially secured the rights to Raven's source material – Tim Reiterman's nonfiction Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People – serves as executive producer, The Hollywood Reporter writes.
- 9/10/2016
- Rollingstone.com
True crime is here to stay. It was announced today that HBO, Vince Gilligan, Octavia Spencer and Michelle MacLaren will be teaming up to develop the story of the Jonestown Massacre in “Raven.” This will be the first collaboration for MacLaren and Gilligan since “Breaking Bad.”
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The limited series will be based off the book “Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People” by Tim Reiterman. It will tell the story of the Peoples Temple Agriculture Project in Guayana, a religious community under the leadership of Jim Jones.
The community is more commonly known as Jonestown, infamous for the mass suicide at the direction of Jones, in which 909 Americans took part on November 18th, 1978 by ingesting cyanide. Jones called the act “revolutionary...
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The limited series will be based off the book “Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People” by Tim Reiterman. It will tell the story of the Peoples Temple Agriculture Project in Guayana, a religious community under the leadership of Jim Jones.
The community is more commonly known as Jonestown, infamous for the mass suicide at the direction of Jones, in which 909 Americans took part on November 18th, 1978 by ingesting cyanide. Jones called the act “revolutionary...
- 9/9/2016
- by Annakeara Stinson
- Indiewire
If you wondered what would be next on the agenda for the Breaking Bad team of Vince Gilligan and Michelle MacLaren, wonder no longer. The duo are reuniting for a miniseries about the Jonestown massacre for HBO.
The new series will be based on the book Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, by Tim Reiterman, a journalist who actually survived the events in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple, a splinter group whose commune in Jonestown was eventually the site of a mass suicide of cult members. The book takes the reader through the formation of the Peoples Temple through to the deaths at Jonestown, looking at the personality of Jim Jones, the people who followed him, and his encouragement that they kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor Aid. We can assume that the new HBO miniseries will follow...
The new series will be based on the book Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, by Tim Reiterman, a journalist who actually survived the events in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple, a splinter group whose commune in Jonestown was eventually the site of a mass suicide of cult members. The book takes the reader through the formation of the Peoples Temple through to the deaths at Jonestown, looking at the personality of Jim Jones, the people who followed him, and his encouragement that they kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor Aid. We can assume that the new HBO miniseries will follow...
- 9/9/2016
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
True Confession: after gobbling up all five seasons of Breaking Bad, I have yet to check out Better Call Saul, which I hear is excellent. I'm getting around to it! Alas, there's just too much good TV out there, and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan unfortunately isn't helping. Case in point: Gilligan is now developing a limited series about cult leader Jim Jones with his Breaking Bad exec-producer Michelle MacLaren, who directed several of the AMC series' greatest episodes. (It's also being executive produced by Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer.) There is literally no way I'm not watching this. Titled Raven, the series will trace the origins of Jones's religious movement The Peoples Temple through its horrific end in November 1978, when 918 members of the group, including 276 children, died in a mass murder/suicide at their Jonestown settlement in northwestern Guyana. Prior to the massacre, United States Congressman Leo Ryan --...
- 9/9/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Infamous cult leader Jim Jones will be the subject of an HBO limited series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.
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Per our sister site Deadline, the two-time Emmy winner (and Better Call Saul cocreator) will write and executive-produce Raven, which is based on the non-fiction book Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People. Penned by journalist Tim Reiterman, who in the 1970s covered Reverend Jones and the Peoples Temple for the San Francisco Examiner, Raven has been described as the definitive history of the...
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Per our sister site Deadline, the two-time Emmy winner (and Better Call Saul cocreator) will write and executive-produce Raven, which is based on the non-fiction book Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People. Penned by journalist Tim Reiterman, who in the 1970s covered Reverend Jones and the Peoples Temple for the San Francisco Examiner, Raven has been described as the definitive history of the...
- 9/9/2016
- TVLine.com
HBO is assembling an all-star team to tackle a limited series about the Jonestown massacre. “Raven” will be written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Michelle Maclaren and is based on “Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People,” written by Tim Reiterman. The author was a journalist who survived the events in Guyana in 1978 during which 918 people died. Gilligan and MacLaren will also executive produce the series, along with Octavia Spencer. Spencer originally secured the rights to the book along with co-producer Reilly Smith. Also Read: HBO Releases New Trailer for Controversial 'Westworld' (Video) The adaptation will focus on.
- 9/9/2016
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
HBO is joining the true-crime parade. The premium cabler is teaming with Breaking Bad duo Vince Gilligan and Michelle MacLaren, as well as exec producer/actress Octavia Spencer, for a drama based on Jim Jones and the deadly 1978 Peoples Temple Agricultural Project known as Jonestown. The in-development limited series, which is called Raven, is based on the nonfiction book Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman, a journalist who survived the events in Guyana. (The Associated Press called it the "seminal book on the story of Jonestown.") { "nid": 852449, "type":
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- 9/9/2016
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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