Giancarlo Esposito, of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame, will return to AMC in 2024.
On Monday, the cabler unveiled a first-look teaser trailer and pictures of the highly-anticipated drama collection Parish.
The six-episode collection stars and is govt produced by Emmy® and SAG® Award-nominee and Critics Choice® Award-winner Esposito (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Mandalorian).
Esposito stars as Gracian “Gray” Parish, a household man and proud proprietor of a luxurious automobile service in New Orleans.
After his son is violently murdered and his enterprise collapses, an encounter with an previous pal from his days as a wheelman resurfaces previous habits, sending Gray on a high-stakes collision course with a violent legal syndicate.
The drama collection was shot in New Orleans and options an all-star solid.
Zachary Momoh (The Nevers, Harriet, Doctor Sleep) performs New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster The Horse, whereas Award-nominee Paula Malcomson (Watchmen, The Hunger Games, Ray Donovan) is ready to play Parish’s spouse and mom to his two kids, Rose.
Skeet Ulrich (Scream, Riverdale) is on board as an previous acquaintance to Gray, Colin, whereas Bonnie Mbuili (Invictus, Wallander) performs Shamiso Tongai, The Horse’s sensible and protecting older sister.
The solid additionally contains Ivan Mbakop (Hawkeye, Red Notice) as The Horse’s brother, Zenzo, Arica Himmel (Mixed-ish, Black-ish) as Gray and Rose’s daughter Makayla, and Dax Rey (The Good Fight, Chicago Fire) as The Horse’s son Luke.
Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Get Out, The Handmaid’s Tale) recurs as Anton, the charming and clever face of commercial enterprise in Louisiana who covertly heads a legal group.
His dispute with The Horse’s human trafficking ring places him at direct odds with Parish.
SAG® Award-nominee Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale, Orphan Black) visitor stars as Sister Anne, who has a mysterious previous with Gray.
In a phrase? Whoa. It’s a solid full of heavy-hitters, which bodes nicely for the undertaking.
It’s essentially the most sturdy solid to hit the small display in fairly a while, and I can not wait to see what all of them convey to this remake.
Parish is predicated on the hit U.Ok. collection The Driver, created by Danny Brocklehurst and Jim Poyser.
It’s produced by AMC Studios in affiliation with A+E Studios and Thruline Entertainment. Brocklehurst serves as co-creator and govt producer.
Eduardo Canto and Ryan Maldonado function showrunners and govt producers, whereas Esposito additionally govt produces alongside Brocklehurst, Poyser, Jolyon Symonds, and David Morrissey for Scribbler Films.
EPs additionally embrace Josh Kesselman, Danny Sherman, Barry Jossen, Tana Jamieson, Theo Travers, and Red Production’s Nicola Shindler.
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The teaser takes us into the cutthroat world of Parish, which finds Gracian “Gray” Parish having an epiphany of kinds.
“Over and over, people keep backing me into a corner, and it’s gotta stop,” he says within the first footage of the collection.
“I’m tired of being the passenger in my own life.”
AMC has been embracing shorter episode orders, with a lot of its new and returning reveals having six episodes apiece.
These orders are quick, certain, however they will result in tighter storytelling.
Hopefully, it is going to be an identical case with Parish as a result of the solid and teaser take us into an exhilarating universe full of many fascinating characters.
We do not know at which a part of the yr the collection will air on AMC, however with The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live set for February and Orphan Black: Echoes on deck, along with different collection, it is tough to pinpoint a precise date.
As at all times, we’ll hold you up to the mark on new particulars as they turn out to be obtainable.
Check out the promo for Parish under.
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