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EXCLUSIVE: West Duchovny (The Five-Star Weekend, Painkiller) is nan latest to subordinate AMC‘s NASCAR play bid Thunder Road from John Fusco. The antecedently announced formed includes Dennis Quaid, Chase Stokes, Michael Rooker, Matt Barr, and Maggie Grace.
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.
Duchovny will play Cassie Whitlock, nan youngest and astir fierce of nan Whitlock siblings. Cassie has inherited Duane’s accomplishment connected nan way and his insatiable will to win. Fiery, rebellious, and convinced that she belongs connected nan Daytona Speedway, she ne'er hesitates to punctual her old-school dynastic begetter really talented a driver she is — each nan while engaging successful vulnerable liaisons of her ain that could jeopardize nan Whitlock racing legacy.
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.
Duchovny tin presently beryllium seen successful Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend, playing nan girl of Chloë Sevigny’s characteristic other Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, D’Arcy Carden, and Gemma Chan. West antecedently starred successful nan Netflix constricted bid Painkiller for head Pete Berg, and successful Hulu’s Saint X for head Dee Rees. She besides appeared other Jim Gaffigan successful Colin West’s independent characteristic Linoleum. Duchovny is represented by Untitled and Gersh.
