Lincoln Younes Set as Star of Paramount Plus Australian Series ‘Last King of the Cross’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefRising Australian star Lincoln Younes has been cast as the lead of “Last King of the Cross,” a biographical series about a notorious night club owner and gangster being produced for Paramount Plus.
Told in ten episodes, the series is an operatic story of two brothers, Sam and John Ibrahim who organize the street but lose each other in their ascent to power.Kieran Darcy-Smith (“Wolf Creek,” “The Duel”) has writing credits and is set as the director.
Production in Sydney, New South Wales, is due to begin at the weekend, according to local reports.Based on John Ibrahim’s autobiography of the same name, the series tracks Ibrahim’s rise from a poverty-stricken Lebanese immigrant with no education, no money, and no prospects, to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul in Sydney’s Kings Cross.
The district is a mini-Atlantic City, barely half a mile long with every form of criminality on display. “Last King of The Cross” is a Helium Pictures production for Paramount Plus Australia with Cineflix Rights as the exclusive international distribution partner.
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