Michael Rooker Joins AMC NASCAR Drama ‘Thunder Street’

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Rooker (The Strolling Lifeless, Guardians of the Galaxy) is the newest to be solid in AMC‘s NASCAR drama sequence Thunder Street, from John Fusco. Rooker joins the beforehand introduced lead, Dennis Quaid, and Chase Stokes.

In a recurring function, Rooker will play Lucas, the patriarch of the Farley household. Lucas is a tough-minded previous buzzard. A lifetime of racing accidents and misadventure could have broken his physique, nevertheless it’s left him with the iron will of a person half his age.

Thunder Street follows the multi-generational saga of the fictional Whitlock household, whose legacy in inventory automobile racing is as deep because the household’s ties to the Southern hill nation roots that formed them.

Quaid stars as racing legend Duane Whitlock, aka The Wrecking Ball, a towering determine who constructed a racing empire from a legacy of moonshine runs and filth tracks and refuses to let it die. With ruthless rivals who will cease at nothing to dethrone and destroy them, the Whitlocks are a blue-collar dynasty on the fringe of extinction – and the previous king is preventing to carry onto the crown.  

As we introduced this morning, Stokes is ready for the function of Ronnie Whitlock, who leads with an outlaw smile and a devil-may-care perspective, a hearth burning inside him. A insurgent with a lead foot, he was a promising professional racer earlier than his troublemaking obtained him bounced from the sport and relegated to his cousin Trey’s pit crew.

Taking pictures on Thunder Street will start this summer season, focusing on a 2027 launch on AMC and AMC+.

Deadline broke the information that the sequence was within the works again in November, in addition to the addition of Quaid within the driver’s seat, in April. The community formally ordered the sequence in late April.

Fusco is ready to govt produce alongside showrunner Taylor Elmore, Cliff Roberts with Syndicate Leisure, Mark L. Smith, and NASCAR Studio’s Tim Clark and John Dahl. Gladys Cheng serves as producer. The present is produced in affiliation with NASCAR.

Rooker is repped by Gersh and Hyperlink Leisure.