Theroux will star as Liddy, who died on March 30 of this year. The co-conspirators and their fellow operatives unintentionally ended the presidency of their boss Richard Nixon, while forever hollowing out American's trust in their government. Star power: Woody Harrelson will star as E. Howard Hunt, one of the masterminds of an illegal plot against the Democratic Party in the lead-up to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection; seen in 2019 Stacked cast: Justin Theroux also leads as Hunt's co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy, who helped plane the break-in to bug the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Office Building in 1972; seen on April 23