Tim Roth Replacing Ian McShane in Australia Drama LAST KING OF THE CROSS at Paramount+
Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction, Rob Roy, The Hateful Eight) has signed on to star in the Australian drama Last King of The Cross at Paramount+. He is taking on the role that was set for Ian McShane (Deadwood, John Wick) to play, but McShane had to drop out of the project due to health concerns.
Roth joins Lincoln Younes (Grand Hotel, Tangle, Barons), who is playing the lead character of John Ibrahim, as well as Callan Mulvey (300: Rise of an Empire, Outlaw King), Tess Haubrich (Spiderhead, Alien: Covenant), Claude Jabbour (Eden, Stateless), Maria Tran (Truy Sat, Echo 8), Matt Nable (Riddick, Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms), and Damian Walshe-Howling (Underbelly, Janet King).
Roth is taking on the role of antagonist Ezra Shipman in the Helium Pictures-produced serialized crime drama, which is inspired by John Ibrahim’s best-selling autobiography. The ten-part Last King of The Cross is billed as “an operatic story of two brothers,” following Ibrahim and his brother Sam “who organize the street but lose each other in their ascent to power. The elevated serialized drama tracks John Ibrahim’s rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant with no education, no money, and no prospects, to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul in Sydney’s Kings Cross — a mini-Atlantic City, barely half a mile long with every form of criminality on offer.”
The Shipman character is billed as a “wily and much-celebrated” underworld boss in Kings Cross. According to producers, “for three generations Ezra has been the most powerful and most feared man in Sydney, but now he is confronting his looming mortality. For all his power and material success, and all he has had to do to maintain it, there is no one to continue his legacy. Enter John Ibrahim.”
Roth is a great actor who I’m sure will do well in the role. Hopefully McShane starts feeling better soon, as he is set to reprise his role of Winston in the upcoming sequel John Wick: Chapter 4. Filming on Last King of The Cross is currently taking place in and around Sydney.
via: Deadline