Matthew Rhys will play the mayor of a cursed New England island in Widow’s Bay, a brand new collection for Apple TV+.
Matthew Rhys is ready to star in Widow’s Bay for Apple TV+. The ten-episode collection is a few “mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious residents, led by a mayor who refuses to consider their warnings.“
Rhys will play Mayor Tom Loftis, a “no-nonsense single dad forced to deal with his town’s superstitious citizens who believe it’s cursed as he is desperately trying to put the area on the map as the next Nantucket.” Along with starring within the collection, Rhys will even government produce alongside creator Katie Dippold (Haunted Mansion). The pilot shall be directed by Hiro Murai (Atlanta), who will even function producer alongside Claudia Shin and Carver Karaszewski.
Rhys is a type of actors who retains very busy. He’s bought quite a lot of initiatives on his upcoming slate, together with The Beast in Me, a Netflix restricted collection which additionally stars Claire Danes. Right here’s the synopsis: “Because the tragic dying of her younger son, acclaimed creator Aggie Wiggs (Danes) has receded from public life, unable to put in writing, a ghost of her former self. However she finds an unlikely topic for a brand new e book when the home subsequent door is purchased by Nile Jarvis (Rhys), a famed and formidable actual property mogul who was as soon as the prime suspect in his spouse’s disappearance. Without delay horrified and fascinated by this man, Aggie finds herself compulsively attempting to find the reality – chasing his demons whereas fleeing her personal – in a recreation of cat and mouse which may flip lethal.“
He will even star reverse John Krasinski in Silent River, a serial killer drama collection for Prime Video. The collection shall be “told through the lens of two men — played by Krasinski and Rhys — whose lives are far more connected than they realize. Silent River explores the cracks of small-town America in the wake of discovering a serial killer among them.” He will even seem in In the direction of Zero, a three-part BBC collection primarily based on the Agatha Christie novel of the identical title. We’ll subsequent see Rhys in Hallow Street, a thriller which additionally stars Rosamund Pike and follows “two parents who enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.” The movie will premiere at SXSW subsequent month.
