Deadline reports the network has given a “straight to series” order to Aquarius which will star David Duchovny. It’s a period drama that will unfold over 13 episodes and be set against the backdrop of the 1960s.
John McNamara penned the project.
Says Deadline:
Set in the late 1960s, Aquarius stars Duchovny as a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life who starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his “cause.” The name of that man is Charles Manson. The twists and turns of a complicated undercover operation will lead Duchovny’s character and his young partner to the brink of Manson’s crimes that will that will eventually lead to the Tate-LaBianca murders in subsequent seasons.
Duchovny will be seen in the final season of Californication which begins airing on Showtime next month.
