Kirsten Dunst Joins Fargo Season 2

Kirsten Dunst  and “Breaking Bad’s” Jesse Plemons have signed on to star in the second installment of MGM Television and FX Production’s Emmy and award-winning miniseries franchise “Fargo,” it was announced today by Eric Schrier.

Production will begin in Calgary in January 2015 and the 10-episode anthology miniseries is slated to premiere next fall on FX.

Dunst will play Peggy Blomquist, a small town beautician with big city dreams who is trying to figure out who she really is and what she really wants as she struggles with traditional societal expectations. She shares her home with her husband Ed (Plemons), a butcher’s assistant, who wants to be supportive of his wife’s self-discovery, even if he doesn’t quite understand it.

“Fargo’s” new chapter, which will unfold over the course of 10 episodes, will travel back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, where a young State Police Officer “Lou Solverson” (yet to be cast), recently back from Vietnam, will tackle an all new “true crime” case. Solverson’s wife, Betsy, (yet to be cast) their four-year-old daughter, Molly, (yet to be cast) and fellow officer, Ben Schmidt, (yet to be cast) will also be featured in the new installment.

Fargo is comedy-crime drama television series created and written by Noah Hawley. The show is inspired by the 1996 film of the same name written and directed by the Coen brothers, who serve as executive producers on the series. It premiered on April 15, 2014, on FX. Future seasons will follow an anthology format with each season being set in a different era along with a different cast and characters.

The first season, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, and Martin Freeman, was met with considerable acclaim. It won the Emmy Awards for Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Directing, and received fifteen additional nominations including Outstanding Writing, another Outstanding Directing nomination, and acting nominations for Thornton, Tolman, Hanks, and Freeman.

On July 21, 2014, FX renewed Fargo for a ten-episode second season to premiere in April 2015.