Delegates at this year's Banff World Media Festival got a sneak peek of AMC's new series Hell On Wheels on Monday afternoon.
Scenes from the highly anticipated western — which is filming in and around Calgary until the end of August — were screened at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel's Conference Centre with two of the show's stars in attendance.
Hell On Wheels features Anson Mount as a Confederate soldier who sets out to avenge the rape and murder of his wife at the hands of an outfit of Union soldiers and ends up working on the first transcontinental railway.
Mount and co-star, hip hop star Common, took part in a panel discussion, which included producing partners AMC, Endemol USA, E1 and Calgary-based company, Nomadic Pictures.
The group spoke of the three-year process to bring the action-filled western to the screen, while Common and Mount praised the show's local film crew.
“I can't tell you how important it is to have a crew who know what they're doing,” Mount said.
“To have hair and makeup people who know how to act around a horse ... and our costumes are amazing.”
Rapper Common, who recently felt the wrath of FOX News after being invited to the White House to participate in a night of music and poetry, told the packed room he was moved and inspired by the script.
“I was so excited when I read the script and I was so excited to audition,” he said.
“Everyday I'm so excited to do whatever we're going to be doing on the railroad.”
lisa.wilton@sunmedia.ca
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