In a bit of surprising casting news, Chris Rock is set to take the lead on the next season of Fargo.
Creator Noah Hawley announced that Rock will play the head of a crime family on the upcoming season. It was also unveiled that season 4 will take place in Kansas City, Missouri in the year 1950. The locale will serve as the crossroads and collisions of two migrations, Italians coming from Italy and African Americans fleeing the south to escape Jim Crow, both fighting for a piece of the American dream as two controlling crime syndicates. They are at an uneasy peace controlling an alternate economy of exploitation, graft, and drugs. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.
Rock is a four Emmy-award winner and three-time Grammy winner as well as a New York Times Best-Selling Author. He recently wrapped his international Total Blackout Tour, which was his first tour in 9 years which resulted in his first of two Netflix standup specials, Tamborine.
As for Fargo, the series goes into production this fall for its fourth season.
