Amanda Brugel of The Handmaid’s Story fame has joined the solid of AMC’s upcoming drama collection The Driver, a remake of the British drama collection of the identical identify that may star Breaking Unhealthy and Higher Name Saul alum Giancarlo Esposito. The collection is about to reach on AMC and AMC+ in 2023.
The report of her casting was initially made by Deadline, who additionally offered some perception on the character that Brugel will likely be portraying. She will likely be taking part in Sister Anne, a tattoo-laden nun that’s fully dedicated to her God and shares a mysterious previous with Esposito’s character, Vince. Brugel joins a solid that features Esposito in addition to beforehand introduced Paula Malcomson, Bonnie Mbuli, Zackary Momoh, and, Skeet Ulrich.
The collection will star Esposito as a taxi driver whose life takes an sudden flip when he’s employed to chauffeur a infamous New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster often known as “The Horse,” performed by Momoh, pulling him into an underground legal enterprise. Danny Brocklehurst, who created the unique collection with Jim Poyser, can be behind the creation of this adaptation alongside Sunu Gonera. Together with being the creator of the upcoming collection, Gonera can be identified for being the director of a number of episodes of each FX’s Snowfall and Raised By Wolves at HBO. Gonera will direct the pilot of the upcoming six-episode collection.
Brugel is finest identified for her function as Rita Blue in The Handmaid’s Story, with different TV credit together with recurring roles on Orphan Black, Snowpiercer, and Fairly Onerous Circumstances, amongst others. Her current movie credit embrace 2020’s Sugar Daddy and the 2020 cult hit Becky, along with her most up-to-date movie credit score being for Ashgrove in 2022, a movie that she co-wrote, produced and starred in.
The Driver is being produced by AMC Studios in affiliation with A+E Studios and Thruline Leisure with Theo Travers, author for Billions and Energy, serving as collection showrunner. Travers can be an government producer on the undertaking, becoming a member of Esposito, Gonera, and Brocklehurst within the function in addition to David Morrissey, who performed Vince within the authentic, Josh Kesselman and Danny Sherman by way of Thruline Leisure and Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson from A+E Studios. The collection is
The Driver will likely be premiering on AMC and AMC+ someday in 2023 and can encompass six episodes for the debut season. Within the meantime try the trailer for The Handmaid’s Story:
