It's official, Academy Award winning director Ron Howard will take on Nixon.

Universal Pictures purchased the rights for Howard to direct an adaptation of Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon. Howard saw the show at the West End's Donmar Warehouse last week and immediately took to it.

Frost/Nixon is about the famed 1977 television interviews between award-winning British journalist and best-selling author David Frost and former president Richard Nixon in 1977 on Frost On America. The infamous interviews took place a thousand days after Nixon's resignation. The two discussed The Watergate investigation, issues of world politics, the Supreme Court, Henry Kissinger's role and more.

The play has sold out its limited run. In the play, Frank Langella is Nixon and Michael Sheen is Frost.

As part of the deal, Morgan will remain connected to the project, adapting the work into a screenplay.