Jeff Daniels and Merritt Wever are heading West for Netflix.
The Emmy-winning duo have been tapped to star in the streaming giant's limited Western series Godless, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Godless, from Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank, is set in 1884 and centers on Frank Griffin (Daniels), a menacing outlaw who is terrorizing the West as he hunts down Roy Goode (Unbroken's Jack O'Connell), his son-like partner-turned-mortal enemy. While Roy hides at Alice Fletcher's ranch, Frank's chase leads him to the quiet town of La Belle — that is mysteriously made up of entirely women.
Wever, fresh off AMC's The Walking Dead, will play Mary Agnes, the brash widow of the late mayor of Le Belle, New Mexico, a town where all of the men have died in a mining accident.
Additionally, The Knick's Jeremy Bobb will reunite with Soderberg and play A.T. Grigg, the editor of the Santa Fe Dailey Review, who has been obsessed for years with writing about the Griffin Gang. Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Maze Runner, Game of Thrones) will portray Whitey Winn, the town deputy. Devoted to both books and the sheriff. Afraid of no one, but still a boy more than a man, has a lot to learn.
Billed as a limited series, Frank will pen the script, direct and executive produce alongside Soderbergh and Casey Silver.
The Emmy-winning duo have been tapped to star in the streaming giant's limited Western series Godless, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Godless, from Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank, is set in 1884 and centers on Frank Griffin (Daniels), a menacing outlaw who is terrorizing the West as he hunts down Roy Goode (Unbroken's Jack O'Connell), his son-like partner-turned-mortal enemy. While Roy hides at Alice Fletcher's ranch, Frank's chase leads him to the quiet town of La Belle — that is mysteriously made up of entirely women.
Wever, fresh off AMC's The Walking Dead, will play Mary Agnes, the brash widow of the late mayor of Le Belle, New Mexico, a town where all of the men have died in a mining accident.
Additionally, The Knick's Jeremy Bobb will reunite with Soderberg and play A.T. Grigg, the editor of the Santa Fe Dailey Review, who has been obsessed for years with writing about the Griffin Gang. Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Maze Runner, Game of Thrones) will portray Whitey Winn, the town deputy. Devoted to both books and the sheriff. Afraid of no one, but still a boy more than a man, has a lot to learn.
Billed as a limited series, Frank will pen the script, direct and executive produce alongside Soderbergh and Casey Silver.
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