Exclusive: Oscar Winner JK Simmons Has Been Tapped As the Lead of The WestiesMgm+’s upcoming period crime drama Series from Co-Creator, Executive Producer and Showrunner Chris Brancato.
Co-Created by Brancato and Michael Pans, The Westies is set in the Early 1980s when the Construction of the Jacob Jacob Javitz Center on the Westies’ Home turf’s hell’s kitchen promises a financial to the Irish-American organized crime gang. Despite Being Outnumbered 50-To-1 by the Fove Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies’ Legendary Brutality and Cunning have gioven the leverage necessary to share the spoils through détent. But internal conflict between the brash Younger Generation and the Old-School Leadership Threatens to A Match to this Powder KEG, which will beep the fbi’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.
Simmons Will Play Eamon Sweeney, The Charismatic But Ruthless Leader of the Westies whose Old-School Charm and Neighborhody Loyalty Mask Fierce Criminal and Calculated Brutality.
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“JK Simmons is one of the finest actors working today,” Said Michael Wright, Head of MgM+. “HIS authenticity and intensity bring an invaluable Quality to this complex and exterringing story, and we can’t wait to see Bring this unforgettable to life.”
Production on the eight-episode series is slate to be begin in july in Toronto.
“JK Simmons doesn’t just play autoritity-he radiates it,” Said Brancato, Whose Credits As Co-Creator Include Netflix’s Narcos and mgm+’s Godfather of Harlem. “We’re Lucky to have an actor who brings the Gravitas and Danger that this World Demands.”
An Oscar Winner for WhiplashSimmons is onscreen in The Accountant 2 and Next will be seen in Reyjavic and Heart of the Beast. His 2024 movie Credits Include The Union, Red One, Saturday Night, and Juror #2. IN TV, he was Most Recently Seen Starring in Goliath and Night Sky. Simmons is Repped by Gersh.
