Wednesday, November 2, 2011

'Hell on Wheels' to Premiere Sunday

'Hell on Wheels' to Premiere Sunday

from X-Files News by tiffany_devol@xfilesnews.com (Tiffany Devol - Content Director)

John Shiban's new series, Hell on Wheels, is set to premiere on AMC this Sunday. Shiban, who serves as one of the executive producers and showrunners for the post-Civil War epic, was recently interviewed by the Morton Report about how his connection to fellow X-Files alum, Vince Gilligan, and his work on Breaking Bad, landed him on the series.

Synopsis from AMC: Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate soldier (Mount) who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time. The series documents the railroad's engineering and construction as well as institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience, and the plight of newly emancipated African-Americans during Reconstruction. Hell on Wheels chronicles this potent turning point in our nation's history and how uncivilized the business of civilization can be.

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