Carla Gugino & Gaite Jansen To Star In Cinemax Drama Series ‘Jett’ From Sebastian Gutierrez
Cinemax has given a straight-to-series order to drama Jett, from Snakes on a Plane and Gothika scribe Sebastian Gutierrez, with Carla Gugino attached to star and executive produce.
Also cast as series regulars are Giancarlo Esposito, Elena Anaya, Michael Aronov, Gaite Jansen, Chris Backus, Gil Bellows and Violet McGraw.
Jodie Turner-Smith, Gentry White, Lucy Walters and Mustafa Shakir are set for recurring roles.
Written by Gutierrez, in Jett, fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy ”Jett” Kowalski (Gugino) is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.
Anaya will play Maria, who served as a surrogate mother for Kowalski’s daughter (McGraw) when she was in prison; and Jansen will play Phoenix, an ex-junkie hooker.
Cinemax has given a straight-to-series order to drama Jett, from Snakes on a Plane and Gothika scribe Sebastian Gutierrez, with Carla Gugino attached to star and executive produce.
Also cast as series regulars are Giancarlo Esposito, Elena Anaya, Michael Aronov, Gaite Jansen, Chris Backus, Gil Bellows and Violet McGraw.
and Mustafa Shakir are set for recurring roles.
Written by Gutierrez, in Jett, fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy ”Jett” Kowalski (Gugino) is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.
Gugino’s Daisy “Jett” Kowalski is an intensely practical and self-reliant thief, an unsentimental woman of action. With the birth of her daughter, Jett planned to put her career in crime behind her, only to find herself drawn into doing one last job.
No specific character details are being provided beyond the general description that the actors make up the gallery of morally ambivalent two-bit hoods, budding femme fatales and compromised law enforcers surrounding anti-heroine Jett Kowalski (Gugino).
I hear Esposito will play Baudelaire, a powerful crime lord;
Anaya will play Maria, who served as a surrogate mother for Kowalski’s daughter (McGraw) when she was in prison; and
Jansen will play Phoenix, an ex-junkie hooker.
Jett is produced by Global Road Entertainment for Cinemax. Gutierrez executive produces and directs. Mark Stern, Stuart Ford and Dana Brunetti also executive produce. Stacey Levin is co-executive producer. Kathy Landsberg is line producer.
Jett is part of Cinemax’s recallibrated strategy as a destination for fun, mostly action-packed, original programming. It joins co-productions Strike Back, Rellik and C.B. Strike as well as Warrior, the first homegrown tentpole drama for the new Cinemax.
Gugino most recently starred in Elizabeth Harvest, directed by Gutierrez, that premiered this year at SXSW, and before that Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game for Netflix. On TV, Gugino has had starring roles in Wayward Pines and Cameron Crowe’s Roadies.
Esposito, who has a one-year deal on Jett, is coming off a two-season series regular turn on Better Call Saul, reprising his popular Breaking Bad character of Gustavo “Gus” Fring. That includes Season 3 and the upcoming fourth season, debuting Aug. 9, which already has been shot. I hear that while Esposito has has no deal in place beyond that, he could return to the AMC series should it get renewed for a fifth season, with the production schedule of Jett allowing for that.
Anaya’s most recent credits include The Infiltrator alongsidde Bryan Cranston and John Leguizamo, andWonder Woman in the role of Dr. Poison.
Aronov won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in Oslo. Aronov recently wrapped MGM’s Operation Finale and FX’s The Americans.
Jansen’s credits include the lead role in feature The Price of Sugar and recurring roles on BBC’s Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty.
Backus’ credits include recurring roles on HBO’s Big Little Lies, Cameron Crowe’s Roadies, Amazon’s Bosch, and WGN’s Underground. He also was the lead in Deliverance Creek.
Turner-Smith will next be seen as the female lead in the Syfy/Netflix series Nightflyers. Her other credits include feature Drake Doremus’ The Newnessand recurring roles on The Last Ship, Mad Dogs and True Blood.
Best known for his role as Garet Jax on MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles and as Romeo on Season 2 of Lifetime’s UnReal, Gentry also appeared on AMC’s Turn: Washington Spies.
Ally McBeal alum Bellows will next be seen in feature Run This Townwith Damian Lewis and Ben Platt, and recently starred in and produced the second season of Amazon’s Patriot.
McGraw co-starred in Netflix’s Love, was a series regular in The Haunting of Hill House and was in Ready Player One.
Walters, best known for her role as Holly on Starz’s Power, can be seen in Epix’s Get Shorty. On the film side, she recently wrapped Faith and Boarding School.
Shakir co-stars in the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage and will reprise his role as Big Mike in the upcoming second season of HBO’s The Deuce.
Venezuelan writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez’s credits include Judas Kiss, Women in Trouble, Elektra Lux , Gothika and Snakes on a Plane. He also wrote and directed one of the first motion pictures made expressly for internet distribution, YouTube’sGirl Walks Into a Bar. Elizabeth Harvest is the fourth movie he has premiered at SXSW.
Gugino is repped by Untitled Entertainment and CAA.
Esposito is repped by ICM Partners and Thruline Entertainment.
Anaya is repped by ICM Partners and Kuranda Management.
Aronov repped by ICM Partners.
Jansen is repped by CAA.
Backus is repped by APA, Untitled Entertainment and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman.
Jodie Turner-Smith repped by UTA and Untitled Entertainment.
Gentry repped by Gersh, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman.
Bellows is repped by Patterson Talent Management, Untitled Entertainment and attorney Jeff Bernstein.
McGraw is repped by Paradigm.
Lucy Walters is repped by Innovative Artists and Authentic Talent & Literary Management.
Shakir is repped by The Gersh Agency and Robyn Bluestone Management.
Gutierrez is repped by Paradigm and Morris Yorn