“The Heirs” star Matthew McFayden has found himself a major new television project. The newly minted Emmy Award winner will play a major role in the production project of the creators of “Game of Thrones” David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Bernadette Caulfield “Death by Lightning” (“Death by Lightning” – translation “Film News”). The upcoming Netflix series will partner Matthew McFayden with Michael Shannon (“The Shape of Water”) in the second lead role.
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What is the series “Death by Lightning” about?
The series by its creator and showrunner Mike Makowski (“The Riddler”) is based on the book “Destiny of the Republic: A Story of Madness, Medicine, and the Assassination of a President” by Candice Millard and is about the rise to power of U.S. President James Garfield (Michael Shannon) and his subsequent assassination by Charles Guiteau (Matthew McFayden).