An upcoming remake of AMC’s British drama the driver expanded its roster with three new additions, the hollywood reporter learned.
Ivan Mbakop, who starred in Netflix red warning and played Detective Caudle in Marvel’s Hawk Eye miniseries, joining the six-part series with Arika Himmel, who played teenager Rainbow Johnson on ABC black in color prequel derivation mixed and recently finished filming the lead role in a Disney+ romantic comedy film Graduation Pactand a young Dax Ray, who starred opposite Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes in the Netflix limited series a simple story and Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris on Apple TV+ The song of Ged.
The three are joined by Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, you better call Saul), Zachary Momo (doctor sleep, harriet) and Paula Malcomson (Redemption).
Airing on AMC and AMC+ and debuting in August, the series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst (clear, Come home) and Sunu Gonera (Snow, class of ’09), with Theo Travers (billion,house of lies) is set as showrunner.
The drama stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to drive Zimbabwean gangster The Horse (played by Momoh), a man known for exploiting undocumented immigrants in ports in the southern United States. . Joined. Mbakop will play Horse’s goofy older brother Zenzo and Rey will play Horse’s son Luka. Meanwhile, Himmel will play Vince’s daughter Michaela.
A 2014 three-part BBC original created and produced by Brocklehurst with Jim Poyser it’s a sin s years and years A Red Production banner following David Morrissey as a taxi driver employed by a criminal gang.
Esposito, Gonera, Brocklehurst, Morrissey and Travers will executive produce along with Josh Kesselman and Danny Sherman of Thruline and Barry Josen and Tana Jamison of A+E Studios. The series is produced by AMC Studios in association with A+E Studios and Thruline Entertainment.
Mbakop is represented by Identity Agency Group, Himmel is represented by CESD, Untitled Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein, and Ray is represented by Take 3 Talent Agency, Osbrink Agency and imPRint.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

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