EXCLUSIVE: Mackenzie Davis (Station Eleven, Speak No Evil) has joined the leading cast of the Untitled Newfoundland Project, from creator Jesse McKeown. Davis will star opposite Josh Hartnett, who also executive produces, in the limited series set in Newfoundland, Canada, where they will also shoot.
The 6-episode project follows a hard-bitten fisherman (Hartnett), who must fight to protect his family, his community, and his vanishing way of life when a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town.
McKeown will serve as showrunner and will executive produce with Rhoades through her company Pacesetter UK. Chris Hatcher, Hartnett, Jamie Childs, Louise Sutton, and Sharon Hall also executive produce. The series’ writing team includes Karen Walton, Perry Chafe and Natty Zavitz; Jamie Childs, Helen Shaver and Stephen Dunn will direct. The writing team includes Karen Walton (Orphan Black), Perry Chafe (St. Pierre) and Natty Zavitz (Edging).
Canadian native Davis most recently starred in the Blumhouse/Universal psychological thriller Speak No Evil as Louise Dalton, working opposite James McAvoy, and as Isabel in the Justin Anderson-directed drama Swimming Home. Additional film credits include the feature films Blade Runner 2049, Terminator: Dark Fate, Tully and The Martian.
On the small screen, she was the lead in HBO Max’s Station Eleven and AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, with additional roles in Netflix‘s Black Mirror and Love, Death & Robots, also from the streamer. Her first short film as a writer/director, Woaca, played at both the Toronto Film Festival and the London Film Festival. Davis will next be seen starring in Netflix’s crime noir series The Undertow. She is repped by UTA, Entertainment 360, B-Side Management, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, LLP.
