Followers of Bosch star Titus Welliver have been decidedly bummed out the previous few months, what with Bosch: Legacy‘s finish and the information that his The Equalizer spinoff was not getting picked as much as collection in spite of everything. However all of these frowns are about to be turned upside-down, because the silver-haired crime star has hopped aboard one other new drama of an identical ilk: the J.Okay. Simmons-fronted MGM+ collection The Westies, the story of the Irish-American mafia household that operated out of Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan within the Eighties. The crime group was identified for working with the slightly-more-notorious Italian mob on the identical time — and Welliver goes to be the cop caught in the course of all of it.
In line with an unique report from Deadline, The Westies might be set within the early ’80s and middle on the household on the time that the Jacob Javitz Conference Heart was being constructed on their turf. The state of affairs, after all, guarantees to be an enormous monetary windfall for the Irish-American crime group — if inner battle would not wreck it for them first. Mistrust and turmoil between the outdated guard and the wannabe leaders among the many youthful members of the crew threaten not solely the potential spoils, but in addition the very fragile alliance between The Westies and the far, far bigger The 5 Households that make up the Italian mafia (a corporation, we must always point out, that’s being closely investigated by the FBI on the time).
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Welliver is slated to play Glenn Keenan, an Irish NYPD officer who grew up with the Westies crew, who’s torn between his loyalty to the regulation and “love for his wayward son,” as Deadline writes (which makes us surprise if Keenan’s son is within the mob). Simmons will play Eamon Sweeney, the chief of The Westies, which implies we’re very more likely to see these two males chewing up some surroundings at one another throughout a scene or two. And let’s be actual — that could be a prospect that sounds fairly thrilling, would not it?
Curious to know extra concerning the collection and its artistic crew? Maintain studying within the part beneath to be taught extra concerning the true story on the coronary heart of this new drama.
‘The Westies’ Have been A Actual Mafia Household Identified For Being Bloody Ruthless
The Westies involves us from co-creators Chris Brancato and Michael Panes. Brancato is maybe most well-known for his work on different crime collection, like Narcos, Narcos: Mexico, Resort Cocaine, and Godfather of Harlem. Panes, who has additionally labored as an actor, was additionally a author on these latter two collection alongside Brancato. However it’s clear that these two males have discovered success telling these kinds of tales on TV, so it is not stunning they’ve turned their gaze in direction of one other true-crime story.
As a result of, whew golly, had been The Westies actual. Small and scrappy in comparison with their Italian-American counterparts, the West Facet gang (therefore their identify) had been allegedly accountable for performing racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract-killing crimes in New York Metropolis. The character names getting used within the present are totally different from these of the actual individuals concerned, but when they persist with the essential define of occasions — The Westies ran issues in Hell’s Kitchen for 20 years, from 1960 till 1988 — followers of interval crime dramas are in for a rollercoaster experience of drama and dealings.
Supply:
Deadline
Bosch
- Launch Date
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2014 – 2021-00-00
- Showrunner
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Eric Ellis Overmyer
- Administrators
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Ernest R. Dickerson, Alex Zakrzewski
