Joanne Froggatt in Advanced Talks to Play Quaker Leader in MGM+'s 'The Magnificent Seven' TV Remake
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Summary
Joanne Froggatt (MobLand, Downton Abbey) is in advanced talks to join Matt Dillon in MGM+'s TV remake of The Magnificent Seven. She would play the leader of a Quaker community that hires seven mercenaries to defend against a land-hungry rancher. The series begins filming in Calgary next week, with Dillon, Will Patton, and Michael Ealy already cast as members of the mercenary group.
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· 3 pulledEXCLUSIVE: Joanne Froggatt, famed for MobLand and Downton Abbey, is in final talks to join Matt Dillon in The Magnificent Seven, the MGM+ TV western remake that begins filming on location in Calgary next week, Deadline has learned.
Froggatt joins the the already announced Dillon, Will Patton and Michael Ealy, who are members of the seven-strong group of mercenaries who use military skills and sheer cunning to defend a pacifist Quaker community from a land-hungry rancher and his hired thugs in the American wild west of the 1880s.
Froggatt is set to play the leader of the Quaker group
Joanne Froggatt is in talks to join MGM+ series 'The Magnificent Seven', having appeared in 'MobLand' and 'Downton Abbey'.
