Mr. Mercedes Cast Grows
Steve Barton
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Some quick casting news has arrived for the latest Stephen King adaptation, Mr. Mercedes, as THR is reporting that Jharrel Jerome has joined the cast of David E. Kelley’s series alongside Holland Taylor, who is set to replace the previously announced Ann-Margret.
Based on Stephen King’s 2014 novel of the same name, the Audience Network drama follows a demented killer (“Penny Dreadful’s” Harry Treadaway) who taunts a retired police detective (Brendan Gleeson) with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he is able to strike again.
Jerome (pictured) will play Jerome Robinson, a high school student who does yard work for Hodges (Gleeson). A good-natured wise guy, Jerome helps Hodges with his computer stuff and puts up a home surveillance system for him. Taylor will play Ida Silver, the next-door neighbor of Gleeson’s Det. Bill Hodges. Ida doesn’t miss much and is a real piece of work: prickly, outspoken, self-serving, intimidating, and vulnerable.
Kelley is writing the adaptation of Mr. Mercedes and will serve as showrunner on the Sonar Entertainment-produced series. Jack Bender (“Game of Thrones”) is set to direct, and the two will exec produce with Temple Hill Entertainment’s Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.
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