He Westies It is a next drama of MGM+, and JK Simmons is used to lead him.
According DeadlineThe story is based on a real story, and was ordered in March 2025 with the Showrunners Chris Brancato and Michael Panes.
The Oscar winner will play Eamon Sweeney. His character is explained as “the charismatic but ruthless leader of the Westies.”
One of the showrunners, Chris, praised the casting of Spider star. “JK Simmons not only plays authority, radiates it. We are lucky to have an actor that brings the severity and danger that this world demands.”
The series logline says: “The series takes place in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in the Westies Turf Home on Hell’s Kitchen promises a financial gain.”
“In spite of being surpassed in number fifty to one by the five families of the Italian mafia, the legendary brutality and the cunning of the Westies have given them the necessary influence to share the spoil through a fragile detente,” the synopsis continued.
“But the internal conflict between the youngest generation and the leadership of the old school threatens to establish a match in this barrel of dust, which will drag the Westies to the increasingly deep investigation of the FBI on the Italian mafia,” he added.
