Hulu announced today that Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie, Experimenter, Blue Jasmine) has been cast in Hulu's original new drama series The Looming Tower.  More details are below:

   * Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie, Experimenter, Blue Jasmine) has been cast
      in Hulu's The Looming Tower as Martin Schmidt, a CIA analyst who invariably
      believes he’s by far the smartest person in the room. Under orders to share
      intelligence with John O’Neill and the FBI, Schmidt opts instead to horde
      information under the misguided notion that the CIA is the only agency
      equipped to battle potential terrorist threats.

   * Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning 9/11 expose will be adapted for
      television in a new drama series from Legendary Television.

   * The Looming Tower will be adapted for Hulu as a 10-episode, hour-long
      drama series from Academy Award-nominated Writer Dan Futterman
      (Foxcatcher, Capote) and Academy Award and Emmy Award winning
      Director Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief,
      Taxi to the Dark Side, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks).

   * Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning exposé by Lawrence Wright, The
      Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda,
      and takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI
      may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.

   * Futterman, Gibney and Wright will serve as executive producers.

   * The Looming Tower is a Legendary Television production for Hulu in the U.S.
      Legendary Television Distribution will distribute the series worldwide.

   * Previously announced cast includes Jeff Daniels (John O’Neill), Tahar Rahim
      (Ali Soufan), Michael Stuhlbarg (Richard Clarke), Bill Camp (Robert Chesney),
      Virginia Kull (Kathy Shaughnessy), Louis Cancelmi (Vince Stuart) and Sullivan
      Jones (Floyd Bennet)