Anthony Boyle & Lovie Simone Join Tobias Menzies In Apple’s Lincoln Assassination Limited Series ‘Manhunt’
deadline.comAnthony Boyle and Lovie Simone are set as leads alongside Tobias Menzies in Manhunt, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series about the Lincoln assassination, from Friday Night Lights and Fargo writer/producer Monica Beletsky, Lionsgate and 3 Arts.Manhunt is based on James Swanson’s bestselling book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer.
Described as part historical fiction and part conspiracy thriller, the series will center on the aftermath of the first American presidential assassination and the fight to preserve and protect the ideals that were the foundation of Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans –issues that reverberate into the present day.
The series features Black historical figures whose lives intertwined with the escape, manhunt, and subsequent high-crimes investigation, including Mary Simms, played by Simone, a former slave of the doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth’s (Boyle) injury and gave him safe harbor after his crime.Boyle portrays Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth.
Menzies plays Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s War Secretary and friend, who was driven nearly to madness by the need to catch Booth and to carry out Lincoln’s legacy.
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