Heat director Michael Mann and Oscar-nominated producer Michael De Luca will produce, with Mann directing several episodes.
Deadline reports that the cable network has optioned a limited series based on journalist Mark Bowden’s new book Huế 1968, about a battle that marked a turning point in the Vietnam War.
O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story to the just-premiered Snowfall, FX has established itself as one of the masters of the limited series format.
When Mann and De Luca bought the rights to Bowden’s book in April, Mann told Deadline that the book is “a masterpiece of intensely dramatic non-fiction.