Ethan Hawke joins Showtime for a limited series titled The Whites. Hawke will executive produce on top of his acting duties. The news was confirmed by Variety.
The series is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price. It explores detectives who are haunted by criminals who got away. The protagonist, Billy Graves, goes away from NYPD Homicide to join a Nightwatch division that lets him have a better work-life balance. Although he gets to clock out and step away from cases, a simple murder case unfolds into something that ties to his past and impacts his professional and personal life.
Jez Butterworth (Ford v. Ferrari) will write and executive produce the Showtime limited series with Ethan Hawke. Ryan Hawke, Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, and Nena Rodrigue will also executive produce. It is a Civic Center Media production in association with MRC Television.
Ethan Hawke in Showtime Limited Series
Previously, Ethan Hawke had worked on the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird. His performance as American radical abolitionist John Brown got him a Golden Globe nomination.
Recently, the four-time Oscar-nominated actor has had a string of villainous roles. He recently starred in the Marvel Studios series Moon Knight with Oscar Isaac. Next week he will star in the adaption of Joe Hill’s short story The Black Phone with Doctor Strange and Sinister duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill.
He just completed Tonight at Noon with Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), and Connie Nielson (Wonder Woman 1984). He will join Ewan McGregor in Raymond & Ray. This holiday season; the actor will join the star-studded lineup for the next Knives Out movie, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The stacked cast for the highly anticipated whodunit features Daniel Craig, Jessica Henwick, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures), and Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks).
