By Netflix has premiered the trailer and a new featurette for its six-episode western limited series “American Primeval” starring Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Jai Courtney, Shea Whigham, Dane DeHaan and Kim Coates.
The dark period western drama hails from “The Revenant” writer Mark L. Smith and filmmaker Peter Berg (“Deepwater Horizon,” “Friday Night Lights”) and unfolds in the 1800s near the Wasatch Range in Utah.
The project is described as a raw, adventurous exploration of the birth of the American West. The violent collisions of cultures, religions and communities as men and women fight and die for control of this new, lawless and untamed wilderness.
Kitsch plays Isaac, a traumatized man struggling to overcome his demons and find a reason to live. Meanwhile a mother (Gilpin) and son, fleeing from their past, form a found family while confronting a harsh landscape of freedom and cruelty. Coates will play American religious leader and politician Brigham Young.
Berg directs all six episodes with Eric Newman executive producing alongside Smith. The entire mini-series will be released on the streamer on January 9th.
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