“Manhunt” chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s infamous assassination and the subsequent manhunt to capture assailant John Wilkes Booth through the eyes of an unlikely protagonist: the late president’s secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.
“From the moment Booth shot Lincoln in the theater, and he was unconscious, to the next day when [Andrew] Johnson was sworn in, no one was really president, so it fell on the shoulders of Stanton,” showrunner Monica Beletsky told TheWrap in a recent interview. “The more I learned about him, the more I could really see painting him as a lead role.”
The historical drama, which premieres Friday on Apple TV+, sees Stanton (Tobias Menzies) jump into action just days after the Civil War ended to pioneer a calculated manhunt to resolve the injustices.
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