Martin Sheen Making ID Docuseries About OJ Simpson's Innocence in Nicole Brown Murder

Highly acclaimed and legendary actor Martin Sheen, known for his various roles from Apocalypse Now to The West Wing, is tackling a new endeavor, this time staying behind the camera. The Emmy Award winner has just signed a deal with Investigation Discovery to produce a docuseries about Nicole Brown's murder case in the 90s -- one that will try to prove O.J. Simpson is innocent.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sheen is set to executive produce Hard Evidence: O.J. Is Innocent, a six-part crime drama docuseries that will push the theory that Simpson, unlike popular belief would claim, is actually innocent of the 1994 murder. The series, based on the two-decade-long research by private investigator William C. Dear, will present never-before-seen evidence regarding the case and a completely new theory of the series of events at the time.

"Like most others I had always believed that the evidence showed that [Simpson] did it," Henry Schleiff, the president of Investigation Discovery, told Vanity Fair. "I went into this with a tremendous amount of doubt and cynicism, but this is so amazingly convincing that when you do connect the dots and look at the new evidence, it made me accept the fact that O.J. is innocent."

The docuseries is set to premiere on ID at some point of 2017.

In recent months, there has been a new wave of interest in Simpson and the trial that made him infamous, beginning with Ryan Murphy's fictionalized miniseries American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson. ESPN will also release its own docuseries regarding Simpson, postulating that the former NFL star suffers from Chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.

What was called the "Trial of the Century" was one of the most sensationalized ones in recent memory, and the decision to acquit him was widely criticized -- and only a couple of years later, Simpson was found "responsible" of the deaths of Brown and Ronald Goldman.

Simpson is currently serving a sentence of 33 years in Nevada for multiple felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping.