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EXCLUSIVE: Multi-award winning character Dennis Quaid is group to prima successful AMC‘s NASCAR play Thunder Road, from Young Guns and The Highwayman scribe John Fusco.
The project, which Deadline first told you about, is successful fast-track development, pinch nan writers’ room open. The casting of Quaid solidifies nan project’s pickup chances, pinch accumulation expected to rev up this summer.
Thunder Road follows nan multi-generational saga of nan Whitlock family, whose bequest successful banal car racing is arsenic heavy arsenic nan family’s ties to nan confederate elevation state roots that shaped them. The bid features family dynamics, fierce rivalries, and nan untold stories down 1 of America’s astir iconic sports. On nan show, Quaid will play racing fable Duane Whitlock aka “The Wrecking Ball,” a towering fig who built a racing empire from a bequest of moonshine runs and ungraded tracks and refuses to fto it die. The bid is further described arsenic a communicative astir a blue-collar dynasty astatine nan separator of extinction — and nan aged king fighting to clasp onto his crown.
Thunder Road is being produced successful relation pinch NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). The task reps nan first clip nan athletics has been portrayed successful a long-form play bid pursuing its spotlight successful specified movies arsenic Tom Cruise’s 1990 title Days of Thunder and nan Netflix docuseries Full Speed.
Fusco is EP connected nan bid alongside Cliff Roberts, who exec produced Netflix’s Eric Bana play series Untamed, and Mark L. Smith, who co-created Untamed and is behind The Revenant, Twisters and Netflix series American Primeval. Tim Clark and John Dahl will exec nutrient for NASCAR pinch Gladys Cheng arsenic producer.
Thunder Road is being spearheaded by Dan McDermott, Chief Content Officer of AMC Networks and President of AMC Studios.
Quaid won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven, a domiciled which besides notched him Golden Globe and Actors Award noms. He was nominated for outstanding lead character successful a movie aliases miniseries for his move arsenic Bill Clinton successful 2010’s The Special Relationship which besides earned him Actors Award and Golden Globe nominations. He shared an ensemble theatrical mobility image formed Actors Award for 2001’s Traffic. Recent credits see I Can Only Imagine 2, War Machine, and Reagan, and blockbusters, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Day After Tomorrow, Something to Talk About, and more. Quaid is repped by UTA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, et al.
