Netflix and Kevin Williamson‘s drama sequence The Waterfront is including to its solid.
Maria Bello, an Emmy nominee for the streamer’s Beef, will star reverse Holt McCallany within the sequence. She’ll play the matriarch of a household that runs a “crumbling fishing empire” in North Carolina. Netflix introduced the sequence in Might at its upfront presentation to advertisers.
The Waterfront marks a return to North Carolina for Dawson’s Creek creator Williamson, who shot his breakout sequence (although it was set in Massachusetts) in Wilmington.
The logline for The Waterfront reads, “Impressed by true occasions, The Waterfront dives into the flawed Buckley household as their makes an attempt to retain management of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to more and more harmful means to maintain themselves afloat.”
Bello will play Mae Buckley, who has been operating the household enterprise together with her son after her husband, Harlan (McCallany), took a step again. She’s been using questionable techniques to maintain the fishery operating in a determined try to avoid wasting the household.
Along with Beef, IAG-repped Bello has had a closely recurring function on CBS’ NCIS in latest seasons. Her credit additionally embody Prime Video’s Goliath and have movies The Water Man, A Historical past of Violence and The Cooler. She earned Golden Globe nominations for the latter two, and gained a SAG Award as a part of the solid of ER in 1998.
Common Tv is producing The Waterfront. Williamson is writing the sequence and can govt produce along with his Outerbanks Leisure accomplice Ben Quick.