Watch: First Teaser For AMC's FEED THE BEAST, Starring David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess
I had no idea that AMC was developing a show called Feed the Beast with David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess in the leads, but not only do we have a few images to share with you, but there's already a first look trailer available to watch (via Uproxx). It's a very quick look at the series, and it won't actually give you much information about the story, but luckily I have the full synopsis below:
“Feed the Beast” tells the story of Tommy (Schwimmer) and Dion (Sturgess) who are like brothers. With all the love – and all the complications – that comes with it. Dion can’t stay out of trouble. Tommy can’t move past it. For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening up an upscale restaurant in their hometown of the Bronx is all they have left to turn their lives around.
Additional casting for the series includes Michael Gladis (Mad Men, House of Lies), who will play Patrick Woichik, aka The Tooth Fairy, the soft spoken, brutally intimidating local mobster with a penchant for pulling teeth; Lorenza Izzo (The Green Inferno, Sex Ed), who will play Pilar Herrera, a woman who meets Tommy in a grief group, and is desperately searching for true love; Christine Adams (Batman Begins, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), who will star as Tommy’s late wife Rie Moran, John Doman (The Wire, The Affair), who will play Tommy’s father Aidan Moran, a shrewd and ruthless businessman and unapologetic racist; and Elijah Jacob (Spot On) who will play Tommy’s ten year old son TJ Moran.
Schwimmer is obviously best-known for his work as Ross on Friends, but he recently made a bit of a splash on FX's The People vs. O.J. Simpson and he was terrific in HBO's Band of Brothers miniseries. Sturgess is probably best known for 21 and Across The Universe, but he did some strong work in Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas back in 2012. I'm not sure who thought it'd be a good idea to team these two up in a story about starting a restaurant in the Bronx, but we'll see if that turns out to be a weird casting choice in a show that's forgotten by time or, perhaps, a stroke of brilliance for a show that we're going to be talking about for years to come.
