Chris Rock will star in the next installment of Fargo, FX announced Thursday during the Television Critics Association summer press tour.
Season 4 of the Noah Hawley anthology series will be set in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1950, and follow two criminal syndicate families — one Italian and one African-American – that control an economy centered around exploitation, graft and drugs.
Rock will play the head of one family who traded his oldest son to his enemy and who must raise his enemy’s son as his own in order to prosper. But everything changes when the Kansas City mafia chief dies during routine surgery (we’re sure this is very “routine”).
“I’m a fan of Fargo and I can’t wait to work with Noah,” Rock said in a statement.
No other cast members have been announced yet.
