Daryl McCormack joins Apple’s Alex Cary thriller series with Dakota Fanning
McCormack is cast as Kar, the unwilling successor to the global powerhouse
Daryl McCormack (Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) has secured a significant part alongside Dakota Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård in Apple TV's untitled suspense series from Emmy-winning creator Alex Cary (A Spy Among Friends, Homeland).
In this new series from Sony Pictures Television, Fanning takes on the role of an undercover Treasury agent entrenched in an influential international corporation.
As she gets deeper, she grapples with her feelings, questioning whether her main target, the potential successor to the corrupt empire, might actually be a good person deserving her affection.
McCormack is cast as Kar, the unwilling successor to the global powerhouse, while Skarsgård portrays its leader, Brandt, as announced earlier.
Besides leading the project under his FLW Productions umbrella deal with Sony, Cary produces this new series alongside Julie Gardner (Lady in the Lake, Doctor Who) of Bad Wolf America, Dakota and Elle Fanning, and Brittany Kahan Ward of Lewellen Pictures (Margo’s Got Money Troubles, The Great).
Kari Skogland (Smoke, The Handmaid’s Tale) will direct and produce, with Amy Kaufman (Invasion, Lady in the Lake) also participating as an executive producer.
McCormack, an actor from Ireland, rose to prominence with his lead role opposite Emma Thompson in the Searchlight/Hulu comedy-drama Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, earning two BAFTA nods, an IFTA nod, and more.
Recently appearing in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third chapter of Netflix’s mystery saga by Rian Johnson, as well as Jan Komasa’s thriller Anniversary, he's also recognised for his work in Twisters and Apple TV's Bad Sisters.
Currently involved in filming for Tom Ford’s Cry to Heaven, adapted from Anne Rice's novel, McCormack's future projects also feature Netflix's Pride and Prejudice series by Dolly Alderton and the movie I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, from Keiran Goddard’s novel. He is managed by B-Side Management and WME.