Johnny Knoxville Joins the Cast of Mockumentary Comedy Series MT. MYSTIC
Johnny Knoxville has finished up his reign as star of the Jackass franchise with the release of this summer’s blockbuster, Jackass: Best and Last, and now he’s signed on to his next venture. Knoxville is set to star in Mt. Mystic, the comedy series based on a YouTube pilot.
The mockumentary comedy follows a dysfunctional team of park rangers as they face budget cuts, drama, and chaos — both natural and supernatural — in the most unpredictable state park on Earth.
Each episode follows the rangers’ personal misadventures and existential distractions as they try, and mostly fail, to maintain order in the strangest place in the world: Mt. Mystic State Park.
Knoxville plays Lieutenant Gibbard, a newly installed lieutenant who is eager and deeply unprepared for the sheer volume of personalities around him. Gibbard spent two decades in solitude working for the Forest Service and now finds human interaction overwhelming.
The show comes from Jeremiah Dunlap and Cory Quintard, who created and star in the six-part series, and are joined by Beta Angarole, Josh Black, Tenea Intriago, Mindy Lopez, Robyn Quintard, Moiba Mustapha, Sally Harvey Anderson and Jasper Platt.
The series also has put together an impressive guest cast including Joel Kim Booster, Michaela Watkins, Al Madrigal, Josh Radnor, Will Hines, Brian Huskey, Hannah Pilkes and Allan McLeod.
It is directed by Dunlap, Quintard, and Andrew Secunda with production set to start this summer in L.A.
via: Deadline