Pierce Brosnan is set to star in the new AMC series ‘ The Son’. Brosnan will play Eli, the Mccullough family patriarch. MKSD’s Sydney Lucas (recently starring in Fun Home on Broadway) is set to play Jeannie McCullough, a strong willed tomboy who despite growing up in a male-dominated world rejects her fate of existing solely to marry well and bear children. ‘The Son‘ is a multi-generational tale of the story of America’s birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas family. ‘ The Son’ is expected to premiere in 2017.