Deadline is reporting that Amazon has snapped up the U.S. rights to Tin Star, a revenge thriller series written and created by Rowan Joffe (Brighton Rock, Before I Go To Sleep), which stars Tim Roth (The Hateful Eight) and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men).
The series from Sky Atlantic is described as “a tale of the corruption of innocence and of murder, grief and all-consuming revenge [and] tells the story of Jim Worth, a former British detective now small town police chief who brings his family to the tiny and tranquil town of Little Big Bear for a better life.”
Tin Star will air on Amazon Prime in the U.S. and Sky Atlantic in the UK later this year, with a supporting cast that includes Genevieve O’Reilly, Abigail Lawrie, Oliver Coopersmith, Christopher Heyerdahl, Stephen Walters, Ian Puleston-Davies, Roark Critchlow, Sarah Podemski, Ryan Kennedy and Kevin Hanchard.
