LAST KING OF THE CROSS Adds Cast For Paramount+ Australia Crime Series
Paramount+ Australia is getting gears rolling for new ten-episode hourlong crime drama, Last King Of The Cross with actor Ian McShane (John Wick franchise) announced as the lead antagonist back in March alongside Lincoln Younes (Little Monsters).
Casting this week is also announcing Callan Mulvey (Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice), Tess Haubrich (Spiderhead, Alien: Covenant), Claude Jabbour (Eden, Stateless), Maria Tran (Truy Sat, Echo 8), Matt Nable (Riddick, Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms) and Damian Walshe-Howling (Underbelly, Janet King) according to Deadline‘s Max Goldbart.
Deadline broke news of the show in March introducing McShane as Ezra Shipman, the most feared and venerable crime boss in Sydney’s Kings Cross. Well up in age however and forced to confront his own mortality with no one to hand his legacy to, he crosses paths with John Ibrahim (Younes), a poverty-stricken immigrant who otherwise reflects much of Shipman’s own similar traits: young, brash, ambitious, and intelligent. With Ibrahim firmly taken under Shipman’s wing as his acolyte, the question remains: Who is exploiting who?
Writer/director Kieran Darcy-Smith (The Duel, “Wolf Creek) is helming the series with Mark Fennessy and Karl Zwicky producing. The series hails from Helium Pictures for Paramount+ Australia with Cineflix Rights as the international distributor.
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