SADDAM Hussein: The Miniseries is coming to HBO next year.
“House of Saddam,” which premieres tomorrow night on BBC Two in the UK, doesn’t have an airdate here but is already causing a stir over there.
“House of Saddam,” which was filmed in Tunisia, tracks the Iraqi dictator’s rise to power and 24-year reign of terror until the US invasion in 2003.
The miniseries has some unconventional casting.
Israeli actor Igal Naor stars as Saddam, while Iranian-born Shohreh Aghdashloo – a regular on Season 4 of “24” – plays his first wife, Sajida.
Naor, 50, narrowly escaped a missile fired by the Iraqis at Tel Aviv during the 1990 Gulf War. “I live in an environment of war and blood,” he told Reuters with a shrug.
“House of Saddam” deals not only with Hussein’s mass executions – including the double-cross murders of his sons-in-law, Hussein and Saddam Kamel – but with his philandering.
HBO decided to wait until next year to air the Saddam series so it would not be on right after its current miniseries, “Generation Kill,” which is also about the Iraq War.