Casting News: Jeremy Strong's 9/11 Drama, Rob Lowe Joins Secret Service And More
Emmy winner Jeremy Strong is returning to the small screen.
The Succession star will executive-produce and lead 9/12, a limited series set at Paramount+ chronicling the "David vs. Goliath fight that exposed corruption and won justice for 9/11's ailing heroes."
Strong will play renowned class action lawyer Jason Smith, "who risked everything to take on entrenched institutions, exposing the politics, greed, corruption and betrayal that compounded tragedy set against the emergency workers' extraordinary unity and unflinching bravery as the World Trade Center was collapsing."
The six-part drama — which is being written by Tobias Lindholm (The Investigation, A War) and Frank Pugliese (House of Cards) — is set to go into production next summer and premiere in 2027.
In other casting news...
* Rob Lowe — who recently attached himself to The Ram, a workplace comedy in development at ABC — is set to star in NBC's prospective Secret Service drama The Detail. Per Variety, the series "will follow elite agents serving on the president's protective detail as they attempt to balance life with professional duty while securing the nation and defending against the next imminent threat."
* Jessica Biel (The Better Sister) will lead a series adaptation of the Robert Ludlum spy thriller The Ambler Warning, Deadline reports. A network or streamer is not yet attached.
* Daniel Ezra (All American) and Andrea Cortés (Mayans M.C.) have boarded Netflix's All the Sinners Bleed, adapted from the S.A. Cosby novel of the same name, according to Deadline. They join previously announced cast members Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, John Douglas Thompson and Nicole Beharie.
* Sam Jaeger (Parenthood) is the latest addition to Season 2 of Apple TV+'s Bad Monkey, per Deadline, where he'll join Handmaid's Tale co-star Yvonne Strahovski.
* Clarke Peters (The Wire) will guest-star in Season 2 of CBS' Watson. According to TV Insider, he'll appear in Episode 7 as Watson's father, Hamish.
* Katja Herbers (Evil), Alan Ruck (Succession), Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan), Karl Glusman (Devs) and Jonathan Higginbotham (Survival of the Thickest) have joined the FX drama pilot Disinherited, per Variety. The potential series — which hails from Peter Gould (Better Call Saul) — finds a pair of scrappy sisters (played by Victoria Pedretti and Kiera Allen) entering a world of generational wealth and long-buried crimes after receiving an unexpected inheritance.