This casting is just heavenly: Danny McBride and John Goodman are set to play a televangelist son and father in the HBO comedy pilot The Righteous Gemstones, TVLine has learned.
McBride will star as Jesse Gemstone, the eldest son and “heir to the throne” of a world-famous televangelist family “with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work, all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,” according to the official logline. Goodman plays Eli, Jesse’s father and the family’s patriarch, who is “known the world over for his aggressive salvation techniques, his worldwide ministries, and his award-winning weekly television program.” Jesse “fancies himself a maverick in the ministry game, taking what Eli has built and expanding it for a more modern audience.”
