FX has set its cast for Retreat, a limited series from The OA creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, starring Emma Corrin. Oscar nominee Clive Owen (Closer, The Knick) Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats, The King’s Man), Alice Braga (Queen of the South, The Suicide Squad), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America, Judas & the Black Messiah), Joan Chen (Marco Polo, Twin Peaks), Raul Esparza (Law & Order: SVU, Candy), Edoardo Ballerini (The Sopranos, Dinner Rush) Pegah Ferydoni (Turkish for Beginners, Drama Women Without Men), Ryan J. Haddad (The Politician, Hi, Are You Single?) and Javed Khan (The Bay, Gangs of London) join Corrin in the series, along with previously announced Marling.
Retreat is a radical conceptualization of the whodunit with a new kind of detective at the helm — a gen Z amateur sleuth named Darby Hart (Corrin). Darby and 11 other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a Retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must fight to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests and before the killer takes another life.
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Owen plays Andy; Marling portrays Lee; Dickinson is Bill; Braga plays Sian; Fowler is Martin; Chen portrays Lu Mei; Esparza is David; Ballerini plays Ray; Ferydoni portrays Ziba; Haddad plays Oliver and Khan is Rohan.
Marling and Batmanglij will write and direct the series which the frequent collaborators will executive produce with Andrea Sperling (Transparent). FX Productions is the studio.
Owen is repped by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein; Marling by CAA and Hansen Jacobson; Dickinson by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Kate Buckley at 42 Management & Production, Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, and Tapestry London; Braga by WME and Greenberg Glusker; Fowler by UTA and Management 360; Chen by Inphenate and attorney Stuart Rosenthal; Esparaza by ICM Partners and Elin Flack Management; Ballerini by Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Peikoff Mahan; Ferydoni by Fitz+Skoglund Agents-Talent Management-Berlin; Haddad by Echo Lake Entertainment, and by WME for playwriting; Khan by VJ Management.