Sean Astin (Stranger Things Season 2, The Lord of the Rings, The Strain, The Goonies) is set to star as Theodore Roosevelt, the Police Commissioner for New York City, in TNT‘s The Alienist, the eagerly-anticipated series based on the Anthony Award-winning New York Times bestseller by Caleb Carr.
In addition to The Alienist, Astin will star in the second season of Netflix’s Stranger Things and in Finn Taylor’s next film, Unleashed, with Kate Micucci.
The Alienist is currently shooting in Budapest, Hungary, with BAFTA-nominated director Jakob Verbruggen (Black Mirror) at the helm.
Astin also directed and produced the live-action short film The Long and Short of It, an official entry in the Sundance Film Festival.