Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev on October 11, 1986 in Reykjavik (Iceland) -

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After the excellent series

The Americans

, a new dive into the Cold War with Michael Douglas and Christoph Waltz.

The two Oscar-winning actors will respectively play Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in a miniseries produced by Paramount TV Studios and directed by James Foley (

House of Cards

), according to reports from Deadline Friday.

The miniseries is an adaptation of

Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War

by Ken Adelman which traces the failed Reykjavik meeting of 1986 between Reagan and Gorbachev on the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The failure of negotiations between the United States and the USSR, which failed to reach an agreement, was probably not unrelated to the collapse of the Soviet model five years later.

For the moment no shooting date has been indicated.

Such a casting should in any case attract attention.

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