Fargo alum David Thewlis to star in Nat Geo's Barkskins drama

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The scripted drama series is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx's book of the same name. Thewlis will play a wealthy landowner in the drama that "follows a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization—1600s New France—where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America."