The cast of Taylor Sheridan’s new Paramount Plus series Landman has added some more star power with the addition of Jon Hamm.
The 52-year-old actor has signed on to play the character Monty Miller in a recurring guest role. Variety.
The character is described as “a titan of the Texas oil industry who has a long personal and professional relationship with Tommy Norris,” played by Billy Bob Thornton.
The casting announcement is just the latest from the show in recent weeks, with James Jordan, Kayla Wallace, Mark Collie and Paulina Chávez joining last week.
The series is set in “the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas,” described as a “modern tale of seeking fortune in the world of oil rigs.”
The cast of Taylor Sheridan’s new Paramount Plus series Landman has added some more star power as Jon Hamm comes on board
The 52-year-old actor has signed on to play the character Monty Miller in a recurring guest role, according to Variety
The series is set in “the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas,” described as a “modern tale of seeking fortune in the world of oil rigs.”
The show is an adaptation of the 11-part podcast titled Boomtown, which will tell an “upstairs/downstairs story of riotous and wild billionaires fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.”
The cast also includes Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Jacob Lofland, Kayla Wallace, James Jordan and Demi Moore.
Demi will play the regular role of Cami, the wife of one of the most powerful oil men in Texas and a friend of Tommy Norris (played by Billy Bob Thornton).
Wallace plays Rebecca Savage, “a highly skilled and intimidating liability attorney sent to West Texas to clean up a mess.”
Jordan will play Dale Bradley, “a petroleum engineer and blue-collar bear of a man who manages and works with losers in the oil fields,” who is also Norris’s roommate.
Collie will play Sheriff Joeberg, while Chávez will play Ariana, a young mother whose family has been in an accident.”
The series is currently being filmed in and around Fort Worth, Texas, with creator Sheridan serving as executive producer with David C. Glasser, David Hutkin, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Christian Wallace, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Friedman and Stephen Kay.
Dan Friedkin and Jason Hoch also serve as executive producers for Imperative Development LLC, and JK Nickell and Megan Creydt for Texas Monthly also serve as executive producers. Peter Feldman serves as co-executive producer and Peter Friedman as co-producer.
The show is an adaptation of the 11-part podcast titled Boomtown, which tells an “upstairs/downstairs story of riotous and wild billionaires fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.”
The show is just the latest in Taylor Sheridan’s stellar lineup on the Paramount Network and Paramount Plus
Hamm is coming off his critically acclaimed roles as Roy Tillman in the new season of FX’s Fargo and Coach Carr in the Mean Girls musical
The show is just the latest in Taylor Sheridan’s stellar lineup on the Paramount Network and Paramount Plus.
He is also behind 1923, 1883, Special Ops: Lioness, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King and Lawmen: Bass Reeves.
Hamm is coming off his critically acclaimed roles as Roy Tillman in the new season of FX’s Fargo and Coach Carr in the Mean Girls musical.
He also voices Sentinel Prime in the new film Transformers One, due out later this year.