Sinking Spring, an Apple Original Series created by The Batman co-writer Peter Craig and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning director Ridley Scott, has added Better Call Saul’s Michael Mando to its ensemble. In the new eight-part drama, Mando will co-star with Emmy and Tony Award nominee Brian Tyree Henry. Sinking Spring is a film based on the novel Dope Thief by Dennis Tafoya, about a group of lifelong friends in the eponymous Pennsylvania hamlet who dress up as DEA agents and rob a rural home. When the couple discovers the largest clandestine drugs organisation on the whole East Coast, their seemingly little hustle becomes a matter of life and death.
Henry’s character, Ray, met Mando’s character, Manny Cespedes, at the Youth Authority, and the two became fast friends. Henry is not just a star of the show, but also an EP. Mando has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the HCA, Saturn, and Gold Derby awards for his work as Ignacio “Nacho” Varga in the last season of AMC’s Breaking Bad prequel series, Better Call Saul. And in 2019 and 2021, he and the cast of Better Call Saul were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Mac “The Scorpion” Gargan in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Vic in Orphan Black, and Vaas Montenegro in the Far Cry video game franchise, most recently in Far Cry 6 in 2021, are just a few of his previous roles.
Scott Free Productions will be in charge of producing the next Apple Original series from Apple Studios. For the first time, Craig will be involved in the creation of a television series; he will write and act as an executive producer for all eight episodes of Sinking Spring, which was given a series order back in August. One episode will also be directed by him. In addition to directing episodes of the show, Scott will also act as an executive producer on the show with Craig and Henry. Zucker, Jordan Sheehan, and Clayton Krueger will serve as producers under Scott’s Scott Free Productions banner. Tafoya, who wrote the novel that is being adapted, will be involved in the production as a consultant. Despite having its world premiere on Apple TV+, Sinking Spring has not yet been given a specific release date or window.