UPDATE: HBO, Starz, and FX are also interested in this project. Everyone wants Kool-Aid!!!

Kevin Spacey wants you to drink his Kool-Aid. The actor, who doesn’t do a half-bad job of portraying psychos, is in talks with Showtime to star in a series called ‘The Crux’, in which he would play the leader of a high-profile cult. Rod Lurie, the writer-director of the underrated jailhouse flick The Last Castle, would pen the pilot script and most likely exec-produce the series.

Spacey would have to wedge the show into his already full schedule of movie roles and being the artistic director for London’s Old Vic Theatre. See, this is why you never take a job at some artsy-fartsy live stageshow joint. It restricts you from doing things people care about. Oh sure, educated people adoooooore the theater, but really, who talks that much in one room? (Vulture)