Netflix has added to the cast for its limited series Death by lightningfrom game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss.
Joining Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman and Betty Gilpin in the series about US President James Garfield are Vondie Curtis Hall, Archie Fisher, Barry Shabaka Henley and Željko Ivanek. The latest additions to the series which completed production in Budapest, Hungary, also include Kyle Soller, Ben Miles, Shaun Parkes and Alistair Petrie.
The historical series from director Matt Ross will see Fisher as Joe Brown, Shabaka Henley as Senator Blanche Bruce (replacing Stephen Mckinley Henderson due to a scheduling conflict), Walking Dead: Dead City actor Ivanek as Dr. Doctor Bliss and Soller as Robert Todd Lincoln. Elsewhere, Miles is 'George Scoville, Curtis Hall is Frederick Douglass, Parkes is Dr. Charles Purvis and Petrie takes on the role of John Sherman.
The Netflix series based on the novel The fate of the Republic by Candice Millard, and explores the “true, stranger-than-fiction story” of James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States played by Shannon, and “his greatest admirer” Charles Guiteau, and the man who would ultimately killed, played by Macfadyen.
Other previously announced cast members include Laura Marcus as Mollie Garfield, Bradley Whitford (The Handmaid's Tale) as Secretary of State James Blaine, Shea Whigham as Senator Roscoe Conkling, Paula Malcomson as Franny Scoville, Charles Guiteau's sister, Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey; Mank) as Kate Chase Sprague.
Mike Makowsky (Bad education) created Death by lightning and acts as a writer. He is an executive producer alongside Benioff and Weiss, Bernie Caulfield and director Ross (Captain Fantastic).