AMC’s set a June 12, 2022 premiere date for Dark Winds, the new dramatic series based on Tony Hillerman’s incredibly popular Leaphorn & Chee book series. The network just unveiled the two-minute official trailer for the noir thriller which introduces the key players as well as the setting for the action in season one.
Dark Winds will launch with the release of the first two episodes on June 12th on AMC and AMC+. New episodes arrive on subsequent Sundays.
Zahn McClarnon (Fargo, The Son) stars as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Kiowa Gordon (Roswell, New Mexico, The Red Road) plays Deputy Jim Chee. The season one cast also includes Jessica Matten (Tribal, Burden of Truth) as Bernadette Manuelito, Noah Emmerich (The Americans, Suspicion) as FBI Special Agent Whitover, and Deanna Allison as Joe’s wife Emma Leaphorn. Rainn Wilson (The Office, Backstrom) plays Devoted Dan, a full-of-faith car salesman.
The series was created by executive producer Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan). Zahn McClarnon, George R.R. Martin, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo, and Vince Gerardis also executive produce. Executive producer Vince Calandra (Castle Rock, Sharp Objects) is the showrunner and executive producer Chris Eyre directs.
AMC’s released the following description of the first season:
“Set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, Dark Winds follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (McClarnon) of the Tribal Police as he is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee (Gordon). Chee, too, has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other and their own personal demons on the path to salvation.”
