Netflix Finds Its President Garfield’s Daughter For ‘Death By Lightning’ Series Starring Michael Shannon As 20th POTUS
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has found the actor set to play President Garfield’s daughter in upcoming biographical series Death By Lightning produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B.
Weiss. British up-and-comer Laura Marcus (The Serpent Queen) will portray Mollie Garfield opposite Michael Shannon, who leads as the 20th POTUS.
The series from Mike Makowsky (Bad Education), which is being EP’d by Game of Thrones and 3 Body Problem‘sBenioff and Weiss via their overall deal with Netflix, tells the stranger-than-fiction true story of Garfield’s assassination by Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen).
Garfield was President in 1881 and was assassinated later that year, having previously served nine terms as a Congressman. He was elected as a Senator but declined this when he became President, despite having not sought the office.
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