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The Big Picture Netflix's new historical drama Death By Lightning continues to add more firepower to its already starry cast. Five more additions are set to join Michael Shannon's President James Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen's Charles Guiteau, including Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One star Shea Whigham and Get Out alum Bradley Whitford as series regulars.
Based on Candice Millard's book Destiny Of The Republic, Death By Lightning tracks the reluctant presidency of Garfield, America's 20th Commander-in-Chief, whose first term was cut extremely short after he was assassinated. The series promises a "stranger than fiction" tale as it shows his rise to the highest office in the land and how his greatest admirer, Guiteau, would eventually become his undoing.
The series will bring Whitford back to Washington D.C. years after his Emmy-winning run on The West Wing came to a close, albeit in a much different era and as a much more controversial figure. He was most recently seen joining Giancarlo Esposito on the small screen in AMC's Parish.
'Death By Lightning' Is the Latest Project for David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Close In addition to the talented cast, the creative team is similarly stacked. Coming off the wild success of their sci-fi adaptation 3 Body Problem, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are once again working with Netflix on the project, this time as executive producers with Bernie Caulfield under their Bighead Littlehead banner as part of an overall deal.
There's no release date yet for Death By Lightning. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on the historical drama as it finishes filling out its cast. In the meantime, check out our previous SXSW interview with Benioff, Weiss, and Alexander Woo for 3 Body Problem below.
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