Based upon the real life story of Reverend Jim Jones, a self-proclaimed prophet who founded the Peoples Temple. In the 1960s, he began as an idealist helping minorities and working against racism.

Bill Hader is following up the Emmy Award winning crime-Hollywood satire “Barry” with a HBO series about cult leader Rev. Jim Jones, according to a report.

Bill Hader is teaming up with HBO to develop a new series focused on Jim Jones and the infamous Peoples ... wanting to make a movie about it. The latest collaboration with HBO comes after Hader ...

Variety has learned exclusively that Hader and Daniel Zelman are currently developing an HBO series centered on Jim Jones and the infamous events at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project ...