Netflix premiere date, first look photos, castings

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American PrimevalNetflix’s six-episode limited series exploring the 1857 birth of the American West will debut on January 9. Along with the premiere date, the streamer also released first-look images featuring the cast, led by Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin. They confirm Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead: Dead City) as a main cast member alongside Kitsch, Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Shea Whigham, Saura Lightfoot-Leon and Derek Hinkey.

Directed by Pete Berg (Friday night light) and written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), American Primeval is a fictionalized dramatization of the violent collision between culture, religion, and society as men and women fight and die to keep or control land in the American West.

Coates plays Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon Church and a man who will do whatever it takes to ensure the survival of his persecuted followers – including using his Mormon army, the Nauvoo Legion.

The images also reveal Lucas Neff’s casting as Captain Dellinger, a disillusioned US Army captain tasked with keeping the peace in a highly lawless country. Once an idealistic West Point cadet, Dillinger has grown jaded and cynical as he struggles to stop the violence that constantly surrounds him.

The cast also includes Joe Tippett, Jai Courtney, Tokala Black Elk, Kyle Bradley Davis, Preston Mota, Shawnee Pourier and Nick Hargrove.

Berg and Smith are producing with Eric Newman and Alex Gayner. Julie O’Keefe is an Indigenous Cultural Consultant and Project Advisor.

(L to R) Shawnee Pourier as Two Moons, Taylor Kitsch as Isaac, Betty Gilpin as Sara Rowell and Preston Mota as Devin Rowell in episode 102 of American Primeval.

(L to R) Tokala Black Elk as Buffalo Run and Derek Hinkey as Red Feather in episode 102 of American Primeval.

Lucas Neff as Dellinger in episode 103 of American Primeval.

Jai Courtney as Virgil Cutter in episode 105 of American Primeval.

Saura Lightfoot as Abish in episode 102 of American Primeval.

(L to R) Shea Whigham as Jim Bridger and Nick Hargrove as Cottrell in episode 103 of American Primeval.