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Over the last few weeks, many local news outlets, including our own, are dumping gallons of proverbial ink trying to keep up with what Tinsel Town deals with on a daily basis — showbiz news.
This week is no exception, with the latest update that “Mad Men” lead actor Jon Hamm will in fact be joining the cast of the Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace co-produced drama “Landman”.
According to an article pushed out by Deadline, The Emmy winning Hamm will be taking on the role of Texas oil titan Monty Miller, who has a long personal and professional relationship with Billy Bob Thornton’s character Tommy Norris. This update comes a week after it was verified that Hollywood icon/producer Demi Moore would also be joining the cast of “Landman” in the role of Cami, who we speculate will be playing Hamm’s wife on the show.
A press release sent out last week said the character Cami will be the wife of one of the most powerful oil men in Texas and also “friend” to Thornton’s character Tommy Morris. Could it be Monty Miller?
Most people know Hamm for his role as Don Draper on the AMC television series “Mad Men” which aired from 2007 to 2015. Hamm would actually go on to win an Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for this role, which also garnered him a Golden Globe along with several other accolades. Hamm also just appeared in season five of the anthology series “Fargo” as an uber conservative sheriff named Roy Tillman, a role that garnered him yet another Golden Globe nomination. Sounds like Hamm was built for the Sheridan-verse with this laundry list of accolades.
Outside of live action roles, Hamm is also lending his voice to the lead character in the animated Fox detective comedy series “Grimsby”, a show he is also executive producer on.
But that’s not all.
Hamm is also set to star and executive produce two upcoming series — “Your Friends and Neighbors” and an adaptation of the podcast “American Hostage”.
The show “Landman” itself is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, with a storyline inspired by the 11-part podcast amply named “Boomtown” created by the series co-producer Wallace. “Landman” is described to be an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy, and our geopolitics.
Besides Hamm, Thornton, and Moore, “Landman” also stars Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Jacob Lofland, Kayla Wallace, James Jordan, Mark Collie, and Paulina Chávez.
“Landman” is currently in production in and around the greater Fort Worth area, which just had a shoot at the Robert and Maria Lowdon Track and Field at the TCU campus earlier this week. This new show is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions for Paramount+.
