EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning director Daniel Sackheim has signed on as executive producer and director of HBO’s upcoming straight-to-series drama Lovecraft Country. Additionally, Abbey Lee has joi…
are set for recurring roles on the high-profile project, from Misha Green, Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros Television.follows Atticus Freeman as he joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father.
Lee will play Christina Braithwhite, the only daughter of the leader of a secret order calling themselves the “Sons of Adam,” she’s gone to great lengths to earn her father’s respect, to no avail. She’s going to pave her own path to power, and she’s going to use Atticus and his family to do it. She replaces Elizabeth Debicki, who was originally cast in the role.
Smith will portray William. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed, he’s the perfect specimen for the Aryan race. He’s Christina’s henchmen, lover, bodyguard, spy, and anything else she needs him to be when she needs him to be it. Lee, Chung and Smith join previously cast Majors, Smollett-Bell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Vance, Wunmi Mosaku, Aunjanue Ellis and Jamie Harris.
Sackheim, Peele and Green executive produce, along with Bad Robot’s Abrams and Ben Stephenson, David Knoller and Yann Demange, who directs the first episode., is known for his work as director on such series as, and Ozark, for which he received and Emmy nomination. He has served as executive produced and directed on such series as T
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