Peter Fonda Joins AMC’s Ridley Scott Pilot ‘Galyntine’ (Exclusive)

Peter Fonda has joined AMC pilot Galyntine as a series regular, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The actor also has signed with APA for representation in all areas.

Galyntine, a sci-fi fantasy set in a postapocalyptic future that has rejected all technology, hails from Ridley Scott‘s banner, Scott Free, which has a first-look deal with AMC. Scott will executive produce alongside Scott Free’s David Zucker, The Walking Dead‘s Greg Nicotero and Halt & Catch Fire‘s Jason Cahill, who wrote the pilot.

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Fonda will play Crawford, a handyman’s shop owner who is described as a “grizzled, ultratraditionalist hard-ass with a sadistic streak and a simmering resentment” about no longer being a leader among his band of survivors. David Mackenzie (Starred Up, Perfect Sense) will direct the pilot, which also features The Shield alum Catherine Dent as another survivor.

As an icon of 1960s counterculture, Fonda starred in The Wild Angels, The Trip and most famously Easy Rider, for which he shared an Oscar screenwriting nomination with Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern. A second Oscar nod, for best actor, followed in 1997 for Ulee’s Gold, which earned him Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Circle wins. He won another Golden Globe and received Emmy and SAG nominations for his supporting turn opposite Helen Mirren in the Showtime movie The Passion of Ayn Rand. Fonda’s acclaimed career, which began onstage with a New York Critics Circle-winning Broadway debut in 1961’s Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole, also includes Lilith, The Victors, Race With the Devil, Outlaw Blues, the NBC telepic adaptation of The Tempest, The Limey, the Showtime movie The Maldonado Miracle and the 2007 Russell Crowe–Christian Bale remake of 3:10 to Yuma.

Fonda continues to be managed by Jeff Rose, Alan Somers and Henry Mauldin of The Rose Group.

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