Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star in Fellow Travelers. Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Allison Williams (Girls) and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods) round out the regular cast. Fellow Travelers is a Fremantle and Showtime co-production and will premiere this fall on Paramount+ With Showtime.
Created by Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), Fellow Travelers is a love story and political thriller. The story is about the fleeting romance of two very different men who meet in the shadows of Washington's McCarthy era.
Bomer (pictured) plays the charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who has a financially rewarding behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements - until he meets Tim Laughlin, a young man brimming with idealism and religious faith. They strike up a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn are declaring war on "subversives and sexual deviations", beginning one of the darkest periods in 20th century American history.
Over the course of four decades, we follow the five main characters - Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Alladin), Lucy (Williams) and Frankie (Ricketts) - as they cross paths during the 1960s anti-Vietnam War protests, drug-addicted disco hedonism in the 1970s and the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, as they encounter obstacles in the world and within themselves.
Bomer and Nyswaner co-produce with Robbie Rogers (All American (2018)) and Dee Johnson. Daniel Minahan (Halston, American Crime Story: Versace) will produce and direct the first two episodes.
Watch the teaser trailer for Fellow Travelers below.
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