Chris Noth Boards Discovery’s Unabomber Drama Manifesto

LOS ANGELES: Chris Noth (The Good Wife, Sex and the City) has joined the cast of Discovery Channel’s scripted series Manifesto, which will tell the story of how the FBI brought down Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber.

Noth will play Don Ackerman, the Bay Area divisional head of the FBI, who supervised the Unabomber Task Force. Joining him is Keisha Castle-Hughes (Roadies, Game of Thrones), who stars as Tabby, a street agent who partners with FBI agent Jim “Fitz” Fitzgerald, played by Sam Worthington (Hacksaw Ridge, Avatar). Paul Bettany (Gangster No. 1, Captain America: Civil War) was previously announced to play Kaczynski.

Production on Manifesto starts in Atlanta on January 30. Emmy Award-winning television producer and director Greg Yaitanes (Quarry, Banshee) will executive produce, direct and serve as showrunner. Produced by John Goldwyn, serving as consultant to Discovery, Lionsgate, Trigger Street Productions and Discovery Channel, the series will debut later this year.