According to Deadline, Netflix‘s drama series The God of the Woods, based on the New York Times bestseller by Liz Moore (The Unseen World, Long Bright River: A Novel), adds five new cast members to the series as regulars. Damon Gupton (The Big Door Prize, The Last Days of Plolemy Grey), Susannah Perkins (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, My Cousin’s Wedding), Benjamin Walker (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, In the Hearts of the Sea), Nell Fisher (Stranger Things, Evil Dead Rise), and Autumn Molina (A Really Haunted Loud House, My Brother’s Bike) join the upcoming drama series.
Deadline reports that the series recently announced that Maya Hawke (Do Revenge, Little Women), Kerry Condon (Train Dreams, Night Swim), and Ella Rubin (Until Dawn, The Idea of You) joined the cast of The God of the Woods. The series is set in the Adirondacks, exploring the Van Laar family’s dark secrets, class tensions, and the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Barbara Van Laar, a 13-year-old who goes missing from her family’s summer camp.
As per Deadline, Fisher is set to play Barbara Van Laar, who is described as an artistic and headstrong teen with a punk sensibility. Barbara joins Camp Emerson seeking refuge from her fraught family unit and finds kinship with campers and counselors alike. Gupton plays Denny Hayes, a captain in the Bureau of Criminal Investigations. Denny is an investigator who struggles with balancing his peace and his new colleague Judy Luptack, played by Hawke. Perkins will be playing TJ Hewitt, the commanding director of Camp Emerson, who quickly jumps into action when one of her campers goes missing. Walker will play the character of Peter Van Laar III a imposing, entitled and humorless wealthy heir to the Van Laar estate. Molina joins as Tracy Jewell, a determined young camper at Emerson who makes it her mission to help find her missing bunkmate.
The series is executive-produced and co-showrun by Liz Hannah (The Girl from Plainville, Lee) and author Moore, Deadline reports. The God of the Woods hails from Sony Pictures Television.