Michael Kenneth Williams Heads to Jordan Peele’s LOVECRAFT COUNTRY
Mike Sprague
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Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams’ high-profile straight-to-series HBO drama Lovecraft Country has just cast Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire) in a lead role opposite Jonathan Majors. Deadline reports that Williams will play Majors’ father Montrose Freeman.
In addition to Majors and Williams, Lovecraft Country also stars Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Wunmi Mosaku, Aunjanue Ellis, Jamie Harris, and Elizabeth Debicki.
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The new series is penned by Misha Green based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff. Yann Demange directs the first episode and executive produces, along with Peele, Green, Abrams, Ben Stephenson, and David Knoller.
Synopsis:
Atticus Freeman (Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. Thus begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
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