Although he'll always be Tommy from Love/Hate to us, Killian Scott's moving up in the world and has now landed the lead role in a new TV series in the US.
Per Variety, Scott will star in Damnation, a new TV series from the producers of Longmire with a pilot directed by Hell Or High Water's David Mackenzie. That film, incidentally, topped our Best of 2016 list and about a dozen others, so the show is definitely carrying a lot of prestige.
The series is set in the '30s where Scott plays Seth Davenport, who is "masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo."
According to the official blurb, "he is unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker named Creeley Turner, played by Logan Marshall-Green, to stop the uprising by any means necessary, but unbeknownst to those around them, these two men already share a secret bloody past." Meanwhile, the best description of the show's vibe came from screenwriter Tony Tost, who tweeted, "The aim is one part Eastwood, one part Steinbeck, one part Ellroy. Or, if Johnny Cash was a TV show."
It's not yet known if the series will be aired on TG4 or the like, as Damnation is going out on USA Network - the same station as Mr. Robot, and that's only screened on Universal.
Via Variety
