LOS ANGELES: Kevin Spacey is all set to play Winston Churchill in a new biopic of the British wartime leader, according to reports.

Captain of the Gate will center on Churchill’s rise to power in the world war II, when he led his country against Hitler’s regime. The screenplay is by Ben Kaplan, who has written about US president Ronald Reagan for a History Channel film and worked on documentaries about Vietnam and the world war II.

Spacey is reportedly attached to the project, which is seeking a director. The double Oscar winner is experiencing something of a career renaissance, with Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his role as a less well-respected politician: Francis Underwood in the Netflix drama House of Cards.

Churchill was named the greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll for the BBC. He took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and led a national unity government against Hitler between 1940 and 1945 following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. Churchill lost the postwar election to a resurgent Labour party, but was again prime minister between 1951 and 1955 for the Conservatives. He is the only figure in history to have served as first lord of the Admiralty in two world wars and the only prime minister to have won the Nobel prize for literature.