‘American Primeval’ Sets Premiere Date On Netflix, First-Look Images Reveal Kim Coates, Lucas Neff Castings

American Primeval, Netflix‘s six-episode limited series that explores and 1857 birth of the American West, will debut Jan. 9. Along with the premiere date, the streamer also released first-look images featuring the cast, led by Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin. They confirm Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead: Dead City) as a main cast member alongside Kitsch, Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Shea Whigham, Saura Lightfoot-Leon and Derek Hinkey.

Directed by Pete Berg (Friday Night Lights) and written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), American Primeval is a fictionalized dramatization of the violent collision of culture, religion, and community as men and women fight and die to keep or control land in the American West.

Coates plays Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon Church and a man who will do whatever it takes to secure the survival of his persecuted followers — including using his Mormon army, the Nauvoo Legion..

The images also reveal Lucas Neff‘s casting as Captain Dellinger, a disillusioned captain in the United States Army who is responsible for keeping the peace in a very lawless land. Once an idealistic West Point cadet, Dillinger has become tired and cynical as he has struggled to stop the violence constantly surrounding him.

The cast also includes Joe Tippett, Jai Courtney, Tokala Black Elk, Kyle Bradley Davis, Preston Mota, Shawnee Pourier and Nick Hargrove.

Berg and Smith executive produce with Eric Newman and Alex Gayner. Julie O’Keefe is Indigenous Cultural Consultant and Project Advisor.