Year Five

Fargo

Award-winning Noah Hawley is one of the most accomplished auteurs and versatile storytellers working in television, film and literature. Hawley balances the art of telling cinematic, unforgettable character-driven stories that linger long after you’ve been immersed in them.&nbsp;Over the course of his more than 20-year career, Hawley’s work as a novelist, screenwriter, series creator, showrunner and director has garnered acclaim — winning an Emmy®, Writers Guild, PEN, Critics’ Choice and Peabody Awards — and passionate responses from audiences.&nbsp;Hawley’s fifth installment of Fargo is set in 2019. This chapter asks the questions “When is a kidnapping not a kidnapping,” and “What if your wife isn’t yours?” Juno Temple, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh star. Upcoming from Hawley is Alien, a new FX television series based on the franchise.Recent projects from Hawley include his feature film directorial debut, Lucy in the Sky, starring Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Zazie Beetz, Pearl Amanda Dickson, Tig Notaro and Ellen Burstyn. In Lucy in the Sky, Portman plays “Lucy Cola,” a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she’s deeply moved by the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home, as Lucy’s world suddenly feels too small, her connection with reality slowly unravels. It was released by Searchlight Pictures.&nbsp;Also a best-selling author, Hawley has published six novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men, Other People’s Weddings, The Punch, The Good Father, Before the Fall and Anthem, which garnered acclaim as one of the most ambitious novels of 2022. In addition, Fargo: This Is a True Story, a companion book to the first three installments of the series and authored by Hawley, was released by Grand Central Publishing.&nbsp;In addition to three seasons of his groundbreaking series Legion, Hawley serves as executive producer, writer, director and showrunner on FX’s award-winning anthology series, Fargo. Since the series debuted in 2014, the casts have included Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Patrick Wilson, Jean Smart, Kirsten Dunst, Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman. The first four installments of the hit series have been nominated for 55 Primetime Emmy® Awards and won six. Both acclaimed series are produced under Hawley’s 26 Keys Production banner.&nbsp;Hawley began his television career as a writer and producer on the hit series Bones in 2005, going on to create, executive produce and serve as showrunner for ABC’s My Generation (2009) and The Unusuals (2010).&nbsp;

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Award-winning Noah Hawley is one of the most accomplished auteurs and versatile storytellers working in television, film and literature.

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Noah Hawley | Showrunner, Executive Producer, Writer, Director | Fargo on FX

Fargo: Year Five

Noah Hawley

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