From Sons of Anarchy producer Kurt Sutter comes a new look at the Old West.
Netflix is locked and loaded to present a new western series. The Abandons, from producer Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy, Mayans M.C.), premieres December 4 with Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) front and center as mothers on opposite sides of a bloody feud in 1850s Oregon.
According to executive producer Chris Keyser, “This first chapter of The Abandons is a classic American story — the frontier, two families — both at war and in love with each other, a battle over who owns the land and who makes the rules. So, smack in the middle of murder and revenge and a bit of illicit romance, we also get to explore all of these questions we never seem to get away from: What makes a family? How do you stay good in a bad world? And, would you change who you are and what you believe in to protect what you love? But, in this case, we do it all through the eyes of Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson, as two widowed matriarchs battling to survive. And that, as they say, is really something to watch.”
Headey plays Fiona Nolan, a strong-willed Irish matriarch who adopts four orphans and will stop at nothing to protect her makeshift family. She squares off against Constance Van Ness (Anderson), who is equally determined to protect and grow the mining fortune she inherited from her husband — and then doubled — as she aims to consolidate her clan’s power in the unforgiving frontier.
Other members of the cast include Nick Robinson (Maid, A Teacher) as Elias Teller, Diana Silvers (Booksmart, Space Force) as Dahlia Teller, Lucas Till (X-Men, MacGyver) as Garret Van Ness, Lamar Johnson (The Last of Us, Brother) as Albert Mason, Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, God’s Creatures) as Trisha Van Ness, and Natalia del Riego (Hail Mary, Promised Land) as Lilla Belle.
C&I reader favorite Michael Greyeyes and Manhunt star Patton Oswalt also are featured, along Brían F. O’Byrne (The Bastard Executioner), Clayton Cardenas (Mayans M.C.), Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Three Pines), Haig Sutherland (Lucky Hank), Jack Doolan (The Boys), Jonathan Koensgen (Reacher), Katelyn Wells (Ginny & Georgia), Marc Menchaca (Ozark), Michael Ornstein (Sons of Anarchy), Sarah Grace White (The Bastard Executioner), Michiel Huisman (Rebel Moon), Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead), and Toby Hemingway (The Crossing, Sun Gazer).
“I am fascinated by the metamorphosis of good into evil,” Sutter told Tudum.com. “What must transpire to drive the morally sound to become the dangerously corrupt. The Abandons explores those complex compromises through the most powerful human instinct — the love and protection of mothers.”
