Jack Reynor to Star in CBS All-Accesss’ Strange Angel

Jack Reynor is set to star in CBS All-Access’ upcoming original drama series Strange Angel. CBS announced on Friday that Reynor will play Jack Parsons, a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry. Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magick rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley’s teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars.

Strange Angel is created by Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Skeleton Twins) and based on George Pendle’s book of the same name. It will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Scott Free Productions. Mark Heyman, David DiGilio, Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker will serve as executive producers; Clayton Krueger will be co-executive producer, and David Lowery will direct and executive produce.