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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead, Guardians of nan Galaxy) is nan latest to beryllium formed successful AMC‘s NASCAR play bid Thunder Road, from John Fusco. Rooker joins nan antecedently announced lead, Dennis Quaid, and Chase Stokes.
In a recurring role, Rooker will play Lucas, nan patriarch of nan Farley family. Lucas is simply a tough-minded aged buzzard. A life of racing accidents and misadventure whitethorn person damaged his body, but it’s near him pinch nan robust will of a man half his age.
Thunder Road follows 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.
As we announced this morning, Stokes is group for nan domiciled of Ronnie Whitlock, who leads pinch an outlaw grin and a devil-may-care attitude, a occurrence burning wrong him. A rebel pinch a lead foot, he was a promising pro racer earlier his troublemaking sewage him bounced from nan crippled and relegated to his relative Trey’s pit crew.
Shooting connected Thunder Road will statesman this summer, targeting a 2027 motorboat connected AMC and AMC+.
Deadline collapsed nan news that nan bid was successful nan useful backmost successful November, arsenic good arsenic nan summation of Quaid successful nan driver’s seat, successful April. The web officially ordered nan bid successful precocious April.
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.
Rooker is repped by Gersh and Link Entertainment.
