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EXCLUSIVE: Devon Allman is headed to Hollywood.
The musician has been formed successful AMC‘s NASCAR play bid Thunder Road from creator John Fusco (Young Guns, The Highwaymen). He will prima other Dennis Quaid, Chase Stokes, Michael Rooker, Matt Barr, Maggie Grace and West Duchovny. The bid is group to statesman accumulation this summertime and will debut connected AMC and AMC+ successful 2027.
Thunder Road is nan multi-generational saga of nan fictional Whitlock family, whose bequest successful banal car racing is arsenic heavy arsenic nan family’s ties to nan Southern elevation state roots that shaped them.
Quaid stars arsenic 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. With ruthless competitors who will extremity astatine thing to dethrone and destruct them, nan Whitlocks are a blue-collar dynasty astatine nan separator of extinction – and nan aged king is fighting to clasp onto nan crown.
In a recurring role, Allman will play Jimmy Fuchs, a silver-tongued Southern usability whose easy charm and “sportsman’s club” credentials hardly conceal nan threat underneath.
“Hot damn! Being formed successful AMC’s Thunder Road is specified a thrill. I’m excited to enactment alongside this unthinkable formed and bring nan characteristic of Jimmy Fuchs to life- he’s rather an ornery cuss, and I americium correct present for each spot of it,” shared Allman.
Added Fusco, “We couldn’t beryllium much thrilled to invited Devon Allman to Thunder Road. As nan boy of Southern stone icon Gregg Allman, Devon carries a bequest successful his humor — but he’s a talented performer and a magnetic beingness wholly successful his ain right. That’s precisely nan alchemy this show runs on. In a communicative world that mines heavy family bequest astatine a crossroads, Devon brings a lived-in authenticity you simply can’t manufacture. He doesn’t play nan next-gen South — he’s of it. As Jimmy Fuchs, he’s going to beryllium electric.”
Fusco is group to executive nutrient alongside showrunner Taylor Elmore, Cliff Roberts pinch Syndicate Entertainment, Mark L. Smith, and NASCAR Studio’s Tim Clark and John Dahl. Gladys Cheng serves arsenic producer. The show is produced successful relation pinch NASCAR.
