AMC announced today that Mad Men‘s Jared Harris will be returning to the network to lead the new anthology drama series, The Terror.
Jared Harris will play Francis Crozier, Captain of the HMS Terror and second in command of the expedition.
An adaption of the bestselling novel by Dan Simmons, The Terror begins production this winter in Budapest.
The Terror is set in 1847, when a Royal Naval expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crew in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival.