Irish actor Eoin Macken is to play the male lead opposite Justified's Natalie Zea in US network NBC's new "high concept" drama series La Brea.
The series from writer and executive producer David Appelbaum (NCIS: New Orleans, The Mentalist) tells the story of a family trying to survive after being separated by a massive sinkhole that mysteriously opens in Los Angeles.
US entertainment trade website Deadline reports that La Brea was given a straight-to-series order in January. It is Macken's third series for NBCUniversal, having previously starred in Night Shift and Nightflyers.
The Dubliner has turned director for Here Are the Young Men, the film adaptation of Rob Doyle's acclaimed novel of the same name, due to be released in cinemas this year.
With a script by Macken and writer Doyle, the film stars Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones, 1917), Finn Cole (Animal Kingdom, Peaky Blinders), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit, The Witch), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street, Vikings) and Travis Fimmel (Raised by Wolves, Vikings).
It is set in Dublin in the summer of 2003 and follows "aimless Matthew (Chapman), his charismatic-yet-deranged friend Kearney (Cole) and their precocious friend Rez (Walsh-Peelo) as they embark on "an epic binge to celebrate a future without limits".
But when the friends witness an accident, it impacts on all their lives.
Here Are the Young Men screened at the Galway Film Fleadh last summer.
