Comedian Chris Rock has signed on for his first regular TV role in almost a decade, and is set to play a mob boss in the upcoming fourth season of Noah Hawley‘s anthology series Fargo.
Rock, whose last recurring TV role saw him play the narrator in the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, made a brief statement, saying “I’m a fan of Fargo and I can’t wait to work with Noah.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hawley reached out to Rock and invited him to lunch, and after explaining the premise for the upcoming season, the actor “signed on right away.”
The new season is set to start filming in 2019, but the FX network has already released a pretty detailed plot description, and it looks like we’ll be going back in time for this one:
“Season four of Fargo is set in 1950, at the end of two American migrations – that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the U.S. at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York and Chicago – and African-Americans who left the South in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities – you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African-American. Together they control an alternate economy – that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.”
Chris Rock will play the head of one of the two crime families. The remaining cast members have yet to be announced, although undoubtedly we’re in for a few surprises there too.
