Michael Mando Fired From Apple Series Following Clash With Co-Star

Michael Mando has been let go from the Apple TV collection Sinking Spring.

Sources say the Better Call Saul alum, who was set to star within the eight-episode collection from Ridley Scott, was dismissed from the present following a conflict with a co-star. Mando’s function has been recast, with Narcos alum Wagner Moura set to tackle the half. Moura will reteam with Apple after beforehand showing in Shining Girls for the streamer.

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Sources mentioned Mando, who performed Nacho on all six seasons of AMC’s Better Call Saul, was let go after an on-set incident. Producers tried to easy issues out, and the choice was made to let Mando go from the collection and recast the function.

Reps for Apple declined remark.

Picked as much as collection in August, the collection relies on Dennis Tafoya’s e book Dope Thief and is being written by Top Gun: Maverick scribe Peter Craig. Scott, whose Scott Free banner has a first-look take care of the streamer, will exec produce and direct.

Sinking Spring revolves round longtime Philly associates and delinquents who pose as DEA brokers to rob an unknown home within the countryside, solely to have their small-time grift turn into a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the largest hidden narcotics hall on the Eastern seaboard. Oscar nominee Brian Tyree Henry stars within the collection.

Mando was poised to play Manny Cespedes, a good-hearted good friend of Ray’s (Henry), who he first met once they did time collectively within the youth authority. That function will now go to Moura. Marin Ireland, Kate Mulgrew, Amir Arison, Ving Rhames, Dustin Nguyen, Nesta Cooper, Idris Debrand, Liz Caribel and Will Pullen spherical out the solid.

Craig, whose résumé additionally consists of The Batman and The Town, will make his TV debut and function author and exec producer throughout all eight episodes and can direct one episode. Scott will exec produce alongside his Scott Free Productions banner colleagues David W. Zucker, Jordan Sheehan and Clayton Krueger. Henry, who has the fourth and remaining season of Atlanta due in September, will even exec produce. Author Tafoya can be a consulting producer.

J. Clara Chan contributed to this report.