FX announced that the pilot based on Octavia Butler’s 1979 science fiction novel “Kindred” has cast Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy and David Alexander Kaplan as series regulars.
They join previously announced cast member Mallori Johnson, who will play the lead role of Dana, a young Black writer who finds herself transported back and forth between the present and a 19th century slave plantation.
Stock is primarily known for his stage work, including his Tony-nominated performance as Gus in Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play.” He will also star in John Slattery’s upcoming film “Maggie Moore(s)” alongside Jon Hamm and Tina Fey. His other credits include Netflix’s “Bonding,” Disney Plus’ “The Right Stuff,” and Paul Downs Colaizzo’s film “Brittany Runs A Marathon.” Stock is repped by ICM, Anonymous Content and ID.
From 2008 to 2014, Kwanten starred as Jason Stackhouse in HBO’s True Blood.
They join previously announced cast member Mallori Johnson, who will play the lead role of Dana, a young Black writer who finds herself transported back and forth between the present and a 19th century slave plantation.
Stock is primarily known for his stage work, including his Tony-nominated performance as Gus in Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only a Play.” He will also star in John Slattery’s upcoming film “Maggie Moore(s)” alongside Jon Hamm and Tina Fey. His other credits include Netflix’s “Bonding,” Disney Plus’ “The Right Stuff,” and Paul Downs Colaizzo’s film “Brittany Runs A Marathon.” Stock is repped by ICM, Anonymous Content and ID.
From 2008 to 2014, Kwanten starred as Jason Stackhouse in HBO’s True Blood.
- 9/29/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
FX has rounded out the series regular cast for drama pilot Kindred, based on an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s influential novel. Joining newcomer Mallori Johnson, who stars, are Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy and David Alexander Kaplan.
The project hails from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), Courtney Lee-Mitchell (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures, Joe Weisberg (The Americans) and Joel Fields (Fosse/Verdon). FX Productions is the studio.
Johnson plays the central character Dana, a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a nineteenth-century plantation with which she and her family...
The project hails from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), Courtney Lee-Mitchell (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures, Joe Weisberg (The Americans) and Joel Fields (Fosse/Verdon). FX Productions is the studio.
Johnson plays the central character Dana, a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a nineteenth-century plantation with which she and her family...
- 9/29/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord, Keeley Karsten, Birdie Borria, Alina Brace, and Sophia Kopera join the cast of Steven Spielberg’s next film The Fablesons, based loosely on his childhood. Francis-Deford will play the young, aspiring filmmaker at the center of the story in his very early years, with the other actors portraying his siblings at various stages of their lives. They join an A-list cast that includes Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Gabriel Labelle, Judd Hirsch, Sam Rechner and Oakes Fegley.
The script has been co-written by Spielberg and Tony Kushner. The film is being produced by Spielberg, Kushner and Kristie Macosko Krieger.
The film marks Francis-DeFord’s acting debut. He is represented by Cesd.
Karsten first appeared on screen in Amazon’s Hunters, Evil Lives Here and the independent films Entanglement and Viceroy, the latter of which she not only starred in but wrote the screenplay. She is...
The script has been co-written by Spielberg and Tony Kushner. The film is being produced by Spielberg, Kushner and Kristie Macosko Krieger.
The film marks Francis-DeFord’s acting debut. He is represented by Cesd.
Karsten first appeared on screen in Amazon’s Hunters, Evil Lives Here and the independent films Entanglement and Viceroy, the latter of which she not only starred in but wrote the screenplay. She is...
- 8/23/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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