Hilary Swank is Headed to TV — Find Out The Details Here!

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Academy Award winner Hilary Swank has been cast as the lead in the upcoming FX series Trust, reports Variety. It’s the first time she’s been on TV since the late 1990s.

She will star as Gail Getting, mother of the kidnapped John Paul Getty II, heir to the Getty oil fortune. It’s left to her to pay her son’s multi-million dollar ransom despite the fact that she’s broke.

As Variety reports, the first installment of the series is set to debut on FX in January 2018. Swank joins a cast that includes Emmy and Golden Globe winner Donald Sutherland as J. Paul Getty, the great oil man and founder of the Getty family dynasty.

Here’s what we know:

The show is set in 1973, when the young Getty is kidnapped in Rome and his mafia captors are banking on a huge ransom. The series charts the young man’s nightmare ordeal at the hands of kidnappers who cannot understand why nobody seems to want their captive back. The Italian police think it’s a prank and decline to investigate. Paul’s father is lost in a heroin daze in London and refuses to answer the phone. His grandfather is marooned in a Tudor mansion in the English countryside surrounded by five mistresses and a pet lion. Only his mother Gail is left to negotiate with increasingly desperate kidnappers.

This is going to be GOOD!

The series is being executive produced by Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson. It is written by Beaufoy and directed by Boyle. YAS!