Paul Bettany and Sam Worthington to star in Discovery Channel's scripted series, 'Manhunt: Unabomber'

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By Darian Scalamoni

            It should be no surprise that with the expanding landscape of television that networks that you’d never expect to release scripted content would do so but at last, Discovery has joined the fray. According to Deadline, Sam Worthington and Paul Bettany will star in an anthology series titled, Manhunt: Unabomber. The show will depict the true story about the FBI’s hunt for the Unabomber, the deadliest serial bomber in history.

            Sam Worthington will play head FBI agent, Jim “Fitz” Fitzgerald who was the newest member of the Unabom Task Force who faced rough treatment for trying to take a different approach of taking down the Unabomber aka Ted Kaczynski. Paul Bettany will play Kaczynski, who was eventually captured by Fitzgerald in 1995, seventeen years after his first bombing. Brian d’Arcy James, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Mark Duplass, Elizabeth Reaser and Rebecca Henderson round out the cast for the first season. This isn’t the first series the channel has broadcast yet its second as their miniseries, Harley and the Davidsons was broadcast last year.

            Worthington can be seen in theaters now in The Shack and is set to reprise his role as Jake Sully in the Avatar franchise (whenever that starts up again). Bettany is currently filming Avengers: Infinity War in which he’ll reprise his role as Vision but is also in production for a drama titled Official Secrets also starring Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins and Martin Freeman. Manhunt: Unabomber premieres on August 1^st at 9 PM with a two-hour episode.