Leslie Bibb (Juror #2, Iron Man) will make her first television appearance since The White Lotus in Cold War crime series Top of the Rock, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The six-part series comes from Icelandic production company Truenorth, as well as Mystery Productions and Vertu.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Bibb, who starred as vacationer Kate alongside Michelle Monaghan (MaXXXine, Source Code) and Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age, Gone Girl) in season three of The White Lotus, created by Mike White (School of Rock, The Good Girl) for HBO, will feature as Captain Diane Goodman in the neo-noir.
“Top of the Rock will redefine Icelandic noirs for audiences around the globe,” said Truenorth executive Kristinn Thordarson, who will also produce the series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “It will reinvigorate their passion for complex and captivating storytelling in the most picturesque setting,” he added.
Set in 1983, amid escalating Cold War paranoia, Top of the Rock follows U.S. military police investigator Captain Goodman and MP Sarah Ellis, both stationed at the NATO base in Keflavik, Iceland, according to an official synopsis provided by The Hollywood Reporter. When an American soldier is found dead under suspicious circumstances outside the base, Goodman and Ellis are forced to work closely with the Icelandic police. They soon uncover a web of espionage, betrayal and political deceit — trapped between duty and diplomacy, the two women must navigate a dangerous network of secrets before more lives are lost.
The series is created by Davíð Óskar Ólafsson (The Valhalla Murders, Trom), Jón Atli Jónasson (Arctic Circle, The Deep), and Ragnar Jónsson (Black Sands, The Minister), according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ólafsson will direct the series with Jónasson and Óttar M. Norðfjörð (The Darkness, The Valhalla Murders, Reykjavík 112) serving as writers.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Truenorth is one of Northern Europe’s premiere production companies, recently producing True Detective‘s fourth season, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, and The Northman. The company’s founder and CEO Leifur B. Dagfinnsson will executive produce the series alongside Emmy-winning casting director Alexa L. Fogel (True Detective, Ozark).