The Plot Against America is written and executive produced by David Simon and Ed Burns.
Winona Ryder (Stranger Things), Zoe Kazan (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Morgan Spector (Homeland), Anthony Boyle (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Azhy Robertson (Juliet, Naked), John Turturro (The Night Of) and newcomer Caleb Malis have all joined HBO’s six-part miniseries The Plot Against America, Deadline has confirmed.
Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Plot Against America miniseries imagines an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
The sudden attention of a key Lindbergh supporter — the politically ascendant clergyman, Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf — are exhilarating and transformational for her.