By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV EXCLUSIVE: Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Deuce) and Bill Heck (Locke & Key) are set as two of the leads alongside star Jeff Bridges in the FX’s drama series The Old Man, from Fox 21 Television Studios in association with The Littlefield Company.
Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders In a recasting, Heck will play a younger version of Bridges’ character Dan Chase.
He replaces Austin Stowell who had been originally tapped for the role. Written by Jon Steinberg & Robert Levine, The Old Man is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry.
It and centers on the aforementioned Dan Chase (Bridges), the titular “old man”, who absconded from the CIA decades ago and now
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