Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother, Rise) has been cast in a co-starring role in Amazon's The Hunt, a Nazi hunter series from Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us), per Deadline.
Inspired by real-life events, the series based on an original idea takes place in 1977 and revolves around a group of Nazi hunters living in New York City.
The Hunters, as they're known, have discovered that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
Radnor will play Lonny Flash, a movie star who's secretly a member of Meyer's (Pacino) organization.
The 10-episode drama is being written by David Weil (Moonfall) and produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment. Weil and Nikki Toscano executive produce and co-showrun the drama. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (American Horror Story) will direct the pilot. Production takes place in New York City.
Radnor joins previously announced cast, Logan Lerman, Al Pacino, Jerrika Hinton, Lena Olin, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Tiffany Boone, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Greg Austin and Dylan Baker.
