If Christian Bale becoming Dick Cheney in Vice threw you for a loop, prepare to be thrown again. Showtime has released the first image of Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes in the upcoming limited series The Loudest Voice—and although the likeness isn’t perfect, the transformation is pretty considerable.

The Loudest Voice’s first episode was written by Gabriel Sherman (who is also a V.F. special correspondent) and Spotlight writer Tom McCarthy. The series is based on Sherman’s book, The Loudest Voice in the Room, and will span eight episodes, with Get Out producer Jason Blum set to executive produce. Showtime has said the series will contextualize events that led to Donald Trump’s rise, as it tracks the former Fox News executive’s ascent to de facto leader of the Republican Party while also providing flashbacks to key moments in Ailes’s life. The series will also, of course, cover the sexual harassment accusations that eventually led to Ailes’s downfall at Fox News.

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Ailes ran Fox News for two decades, starting in 1996. In 2016, however, he resigned from his position following multiple allegations of sexual harassment, beginning with a lawsuit from former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson. (Ailes denied the allegations.) After his Fox News career went up in flames, Ailes became a campaign adviser to Trump before his death months later.

The Loudest Voice is actually just one of two Hollywood Ailes projects. The other is a film starring John Lithgow as Ailes, with Charlize Theron set to play Megyn Kelly; Nicole Kidman on board as Carlson; and Allison Janney as Ailes’s attorney Susan Estrich. But given the role Ailes played in shaping the political hellscape in which we currently live, there’s probably enough interest to sustain both projects. Besides, what’s better than watching beloved Hollywood actors execute stunning transformations into ghouls?

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