--- title: Watch 'The Looming Tower' Trailer Featuring Alec Baldwin description: Alec Baldwin, Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard star in a new series about Al-Qaeda and the events leading up to 9/11. canonical: https://time.com/5098651/the-looming-tower-trailer-alec-baldwin/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-11T14:48:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:13.783Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Trailer for Hulu's 'The Looming Tower' og:description: Alec Baldwin, Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard explore the events leading to 9/11 og:url: https://time.com/5098651/the-looming-tower-trailer-alec-baldwin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt662ab3245c6c5e79/6988f7eb7cdbacb060d5b908/the-looming-tower.jpeg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 272_SP1798_40NORTH_1SHT_Long Walk_F10_m7 (1).jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Trailer for Hulu's 'The Looming Tower' twitter:description: Alec Baldwin, Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard explore the events leading to 9/11 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt662ab3245c6c5e79/6988f7eb7cdbacb060d5b908/the-looming-tower.jpeg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alec Baldwin Explores the Events That Led to 9/11 in the Trailer for _The Looming Tower_ > Sponsored content. 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Hulu Daniels is joined in the series by Sarsgaard as D.C. CIA intelligence officer Martin Schmidt, [_Call Me By Your Name_](http://ew.com/movies/2017/11/21/call-me-by-your-name-review/)‘s [Michael Stuhlbarg](http://ew.com/movies/2017/12/26/frank-ocean-call-me-by-your-name/) as national coordinator for counterterrorism Richard Clarke and [Baldwin as George Tenet](http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/03/alec-baldwin-the-looming-tower-guest-role/), who served as the director of the CIA under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. _The Looming Tower_ launches Feb. 28 on Hulu. _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/11/the-looming-tower-trailer-exclusive/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5098651/the-looming-tower-trailer-alec-baldwin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5098651/the-looming-tower-trailer-alec-baldwin/"},"headline":"Alec Baldwin Explores the Events That Led to 9/11 in the Trailer for The Looming Tower","datePublished":"2018-01-11T14:48:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:13.783Z","description":"It's one of Hulu's most anticipated new series","url":"https://time.com/5098651/the-looming-tower-trailer-alec-baldwin/","keywords":["Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt662ab3245c6c5e79/6988f7eb7cdbacb060d5b908/the-looming-tower.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Patrick Gomez / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt662ab3245c6c5e79/6988f7eb7cdbacb060d5b908/the-looming-tower.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"272_SP1798_40NORTH_1SHT_Long Walk_F10_m7 (1).jpg","caption":"272_SP1798_40NORTH_1SHT_Long Walk_F10_m7 (1).jpg","creditText":"Hulu","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5098651/the-looming-tower-trailer-alec-baldwin/","name":"Alec Baldwin Explores the Events That Led to 9/11 in the Trailer for The Looming Tower"}}]}] ```