Rory Culkin (best known for Black Mirror and Under the Banner of Heaven) and Bill Camp (Gilded Age, Sirens) have been casted in Apple and A+E Studios’ upcoming adaptation of Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna novel series. The previously announced cast includes Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz, Stephen Graham.
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Currently untitled, the series follows Jonah Lynn (Schreiber), an ex-soldier turned homicide detective who move to a small town in western Pennsylvania in search of a quieter life after years on the tough streets of Philadelphia. But when the town and his family come under threat from the cunning serial killer Jurek Walter (Graham), Jonah must protect everything he holds dear. As the desperate search for Jurek’s last missing victim forces Jonah to send his adopted daughter, FBI Agent Saga Bauer (Beetz), up against Jurek, the question becomes: how far will Jonah go?
Culkin will play Karl, a jittery young idealist who starts working at a high-security psychiatric institution with the hope of doing good, only to be tasked with caring for one of its most dangerous patients. Camp will portray Chief Ellison, the police chief.
Meanwhile, Culkin is also set to star in Adam Sigal’s upcoming film Skinemax, alongside Paris Jackson, while Camp will appear with Glen Powell, Ed Harris, and Margaret Qualley in the A24/Studio Canal revenge thriller Huntington.
The Lars Kepler series is being adapted for Apple TV+ by Rowan Joffe (Tin Star, 28 Weeks Later) and John Hlavin (Shooter, The Man Who Fell to Earth), who will also act as showrunners. The first two episodes will be directed by Tim Van Patten (The Sopranos, Masters of the Air), who will also serve as executive producer alongside Joffe, Hlavin Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, the writing partners who publish under the pen name Lars Kepler.
Production for the new crime drama is scheduled to begin this summer in Pittsburgh.
Source: Deadline
