John Cusack to Star in “Utopia”

John Cusack. Photo by Jens Hartmann/People Picture/REX/Shutterstock (5587548l)

John Cusack joins previously cast Sasha Lane and Rainn Wilson in Amazon’s Utopia. 

Cusack has been tapped to play a lead role as Dr. Kevin Christie in the adaptation of the British drama of the same name form Dennis Kelly. 

Utopia centers on a group of young adults who meet online that are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel. Within the comic’s pages, they discover the conspiracy theories that may actually be real and are forced into the dangerous, unique and ironic position of saving the world.

Cusack will play Dr. Kevin Christie, a charismatic, media-savvy and brilliant biotech mind who wants to change the world through science. Wilson will play Michael Stearns and Lane is set to portray Jessica Hyde.

Amazon put in a straight-to-series nine-episode first season order back in 2018.