According to Deadline, Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends, The Hardy Boys) has officially landed a role as a series regular on the new Netflix untitled Newfoundland limited series. The series creator is Jesse McKeown (Big Charade, The Umbrella Academy).
As of now, there isn’t any information in regards to the role that Campbell will be playing, and details remain scant. Netflix has declined to comment, Deadline has learned.
Campbell will appear alongside Josh Hartnett (Trap, Pearl Harbor), who is also an executive producer, and Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate, Speak No Evil). This limited series will be set in Newfoundland, Canada, where it will also be filmed. Furthermore, Deadline states that Charlie Heaton has also boarded the series (Stranger Things, The New Mutants).
This untitled project follows Harnett, a hard-bitten fisherman who must fight to protect his family, his community, and his disappearing way of life when a strange sea creature terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town, Deadline notes.
McKeown will be the showrunner and executive producer alongside Jessica Rhoades (Station Eleven, Dirty John) through her company, Pacesetter UK. Other executive producers include Hartnett, Louise Sutton (Black Mirror, Coronation Street), Chris Hatcher (Priscilla, Painkiller), Sharon Hall (Utopia, The Expanse), and Jamie Childs (The Sandman, Willow). The writing team is made up of Perry Chafe (Frontier, Caught), Natty Zavitz (Edging, Onto Us), and Karen Walton (The Beauty of Different, The Lightmaker’s Manifesto). Directors include Stephen Dunn (Swallowed, Closet Monster), Childs, and Helen Shaver (Desert Hearts, The Believers), Deadline adds.
Rohan is best known for playing Frank Hardy in Hulu’s The Hardy Boys, meanwhile he also got a lot of attention for his role in David Gordon Green (Halloween, Your Highness)’s Halloween Ends. His next project is the upcoming remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night for Cineverse, which recently dropped trailer at the San Diego Comic-Con, Deadline reports.
Campbell is repped by CAA, Webster Talent Management, and Sol22, as mentioned by Deadline.