Lovie Simone, Anthony Boyle to star in ‘Manhunt’
By Express News Service
Hollywood filmmaker Actors Anthony Boyle and Lovie Simone are all set to star alongside Tobias Menzies in Manhunt, the upcoming restricted collection in regards to the former US President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Lovie Simone
Based on James Swanson’s bestselling ebook Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, the collection is described as half historic fiction and half conspiracy thriller. It will centre on the aftermath of America’s first presidential assassination and the battle to protect and shield the beliefs that had been the inspiration of Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
The collection can even characteristic historic African-American figures whose lives intertwined with the escape, manhunt, and subsequent high-crimes investigation, together with Mary Simms, a former slave of the physician who handled murderer John Wilkes Booth’s harm and gave him secure harbour after his crime.
While Simone and Boyle are set to play Simms and John Wilkes Booth, respectively, Menzies performs Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s War Secretary and pal.
Manhunt is produced for Apple TV+ by Apple Studios and co-produced by Lionsgate in affiliation with POV Entertainment, Walden Media, and three Arts Entertainment.
