MTV Entertainment Studios has announced that Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest (Let Them All Talk, I Care A Lot) has been tapped to co-star alongside previously cast MCU alum Jeremy Renner in the highly anticipated drama Mayor of Kingstown, exclusively for Paramount+. The new series from Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, the co-creator of Yellowstone, cable’s most-watched show of 2020, was announced in last month’s ViacomCBS Streaming Event and added prolific director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) as an executive producer.
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Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family – power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption, and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.
Wiest will play Miriam, the McLusky family matriarch who teaches at the Kingstown Women’s Prison.
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Mayor of Kingstown will be executive produced by Sheridan, co-creator Hugh Dillon, Jeremy Renner, Antoine Fuqua, David Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, and Michael Friedman. MTV Entertainment Studios, Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions, and 101 Studios will produce.
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