Chris Rock Will Star in Fargo Season 4
FX has confirmed that Chris Rock will play a series regular in Season 4 of Fargo.
The hit show, directed by Noah Hawley, will begin production in 2019. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rock will play a mob boss from the 1950s.
The role will be the comedian’s first regular TV gig in nearly a decade, since Everybody Hates Chris ended in 2009. FX CEO John Landgraf claims Hawley reached out to Rock, having had a specific part in mind for him. They had lunch and once the director explained the premise of the season and what he wanted to do with the character, Rock ‘signed on right away’.
‘I’m a fan of Fargo and I can’t wait to work with Noah,’ said Rock.
Speaking of the new season, THR reports that the story will focus on immigration and assimilation. It will also deal with the things people will do for money and cover a group of characters who are in way over their heads, in true Fargo fashion.
A set return date for the show has not yet been announced. That will likely come when production begins.
Here’s FX’s synopsis for the upcoming season:
Season four of Fargo is set in 1950, at the end of two American migrations — that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the U.S. at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York and Chicago — and African-Americans who left the South in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities — you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream.
In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African-American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.”
Rock will play the head of one family, a man who in order to prosper has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy and who must in turn raise his son’s enemy as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes.
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