Showtime has officially released a trailer for upcoming two-night limited series `The Comey Rule,` featuring Jeff Daniels as former FBI director James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Trump. The miniseries, written and directed by Billy Ray and adapted from Comey's book `A Higher Loyalty,` premieres on Sunday, Sept. 27.

Focusing on the events leading up to and following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the first part of the series looks at the earliest days of the Russia investigation and the FBI's prove of Hillary Clinton's emails.

In the trailer, a voice on the phone says, `Russia - we think they're trying to sabotage Secretary Clinton's campaign.`



Premium cabler Showtime in June decided to move up the premiere date of `The Comey Rule` to before the November election after outcry from the cast and crew. Writer-director Ray had said that the decision to air the four-hour series after the election was `made at the very highest levels of Viacom.`

`We all were hoping to get this story in front of the American people months before the coming election. And that was a reasonable expectation considering that we'd been given a mandate by the network to do whatever was necessary to deliver by May 15,` Ray wrote in June.