Jeremy Renner to star as Taylor Sheridan's Mayor of Kingstown for Paramount+, with Antoine Fuqua on board as executive producer

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Renner will star as title character, Mike McLusky, the Mayor of Kingstown. The drama series "follows the McLusky family – power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry," per Deadline. "Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither." “When Taylor told me about Mayor of Kingstown, I immediately wanted to be a part of it,” said Fuqua, director of  Training Day. “The series offers a comprehensive look into the brutal prison system where sociopolitical issues run rampant. Prisons are a forgotten world to most of the population and yet represent a microcosm of society as a whole.”