According to Deadline, Kevin Costner (Yellowstone, The Bodyguard) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Wolf of Wall Street), both Academy Award winners, are co-producing a new show called United, which will be in the works with the United Nations. Based on a United Nations mission to East Timor, it has been made known that Costner’s interest is piqued to play the former president. Chukwudi Iwuij (Play Dirty) is also alleged to star, playing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Deadline also mentions that the project is written and directed by David Raymond (Night Hunter), who has worked with the United Nations’ Creative Community Outreach Initiative while the former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was in office, bringing invigorating stories to life that push the importance of shared humanity. It will be treated as an ongoing series showcasing true stories of the sacrifices and determination shown by the humanitarian staff who keep showing worldwide.

Appian Way, Onwards Studios, and Prime Focus DNEG are said to be the producing studios of the show, which will be shot in Atlanta and Spain.

United looks at the 1999 uprising in East Timor, which happened shortly after a UN-organized independence referendum in the territory. East Timor used to be a Portuguese colony until 1975, when it declared independence. It was annexed not too long afterward by Indonesia, which was supported by former U.S. President Gerald Ford.

In the decades following, the inhabitants of the colony fell victim to military repression, famine, and other general abuses of human rights. The power of Indonesia was weakened in the 90s, though, and the people of East Timor were then able to vote on whether they stayed with Indonesia or to become independent, according to Deadline. UN then established UNAMET- the United Nations Mission in East Timor- to put together a referendum, and despite intimidation by Indonesian militias, almost the entirety of the population participated in voting.