Killian Scott is heading for the big time.
Love/Hate star Killian Scott has seen his new drama Damnation picked up by the USA Network, with Netflix set to show the series outside of the United States from October 2017.
Scott – who played Tommy in Stuart Carolan’s gritty Dublin crime epic, RTÉ’s most successful drama series in history – plays the lead role of Seth Davenport, a man masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown revolution in the 1930s American heartland.
Creeley Turner, played by Logan Marshall-Green, has been hired by a wealthy industrialist to quell the insurrection but what nobody knows is that there’s a whole lot of previous between Turner and Davenport.
This is going to be bloody, and brilliant, and just bloody brilliant.
Screenwriter Tony Tost sums it all up superbly…
We're making Damnation. The aim is one part Eastwood, one part Steinbeck, one part Ellroy. Or, if Johnny Cash was a TV show. https://t.co/HjKZJHMNgv
— Tony Tost (@tonytost) May 12, 2017
Damnation has quite a pedigree behind it.
As well as Tost, the pilot was written and directed by David MacKenzie, the man behind the excellent Hell or High Water. Logan’s James Mangold is among the show’s executive producers.
The role is easily Scott’s biggest to date; since the end of Love/Hate in 2014, the Dubliner has played relatively minor roles in the likes of ’71 and Calvary. Should Damnation prove to be the next big Netflix drama, expect the Dubliner’s star to rise considerably.
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