Holt McCallany To Star In Kevin Williamson’s Netflix Drama Series ‘The Waterfront’
EXCLUSIVE: Holt McCallany (The Iron Claw, Mindhunter) has been tapped to star in the new Netflix family drama series The Waterfront, written and executive produced by Kevin Williamson.
Inspired by true events, The Waterfront dives into the flawed Buckley family as their attempts to retain control of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to increasingly dangerous means to keep themselves afloat.
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McCallany will play the patriarch Harlan Buckley who has built up the Buckley fishery business with his dad, even veering into some illegal territory in the 1980s. Since his two heart attacks, Harlan hasn’t changed his lifestyle, but his absence from the family business left it in the hands of his wife, Vicki, and his son, Cane — whose desperate, foolish decisions have left Harlan with no choice but to take the reins once again. Is Harlan a hero? A villain? It’s a hard call. He’s just a man who loves his whiskey.
Williamson and Ben Fast executive produce for Outerbanks Entertainment. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Williamson is under an overall deal, is the studio.
This marks McCallany’s return to Netflix where he starred in David Fincher thriller drama Mindhunter. He is coming off a lead role alongside Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson in the A24 feature The Iron Claw. McCallany will next be seen in the eighth Mission Impossible film and the feature The Amateur, in which he stars alongside Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, and Laurence Fishburne. He is repped by Buchwald, Atlas Artists and attormey Rick Genow.
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