SINGAPORE, April 28, 2015 – The fourth and final season of STRIKE BACK will premiere on Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 10pm (9pm Thai.Jkt) on CINEMAX. Shot in Europe and Asia, this season features new Asian cast members, Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II”), Will Yun Lee (“The Wolverine”) and Pu Vithaya Pansringam (“The Hangover Part II”) who join returning cast members in this Emmy®-nominated Cinemax action series, which follows a stealth counterterrorism unit as it spans the globe to stop potential threats, often behind enemy lines. The series will also be available on HBO GO.
Philip Winchester (“Crusoe”) and Sullivan Stapleton (“300: The Rise of an Empire”) return as an unlikely pair of counterterrorism operatives, Scott and Stonebridge, and are joined by Singaporean Brit actress, Michelle Lukes (“Doctors”), Robson Green (“Wire in the Blood”) and Milauna Jackson (“Blood Done Sign My Name”) as their fellow Section 20 members.
New cast members include Dustin Clare (the “Spartacus” series), James Wilby (“Gosford Park”), Adrian Paul (the “Highlander” series), Joseph Gatt (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”), Christian Antidormi (“Spartacus: War of the Damned”) and British mixed martial arts champion and UFC fighter, Michael Bisping.
Other new cast members include Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton in HBO’s “Game of Thrones”), Max Beesley (“Suits”), Tim McInnerny (“Notting Hill”), Leo Gregory (“Tristan and Isolde”), Mark Griffin (“Doctor Who”), Wolf Kahler (“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”), Andrew Pleavin (“300: Rise of an Empire”), Eliza Hope Bennett (“Nanny McPhee”) and Masa Yamaguchi (“The Wolverine”).
Season four is directed by Michael J. Bassett (who also serves as co-executive producer), Julian Holmes and Brendan Maher, and written by Bassett, Jack Lothian, James Dormer, Richard Zajdlic, Ed Whitmore and Tim Vaughan.
TV Guide said that STRIKE BACK “blazed a new trail in hardcore pulp fiction” and Craveonline.com hailed it as “still the gold standard for TV action.” Redeyechicago.com said, “Every season ‘Strike Back’ raises the stakes,” and New York’s Daily News observed that season three returned “with a bigger bang than ever.” The Huffington Post called it “well made and damn fun.”
STRIKE BACK was nominated for American Society of Cinematographers Award and was awarded Best Big Bang Stunts & Effects by the Royal Television Society. IGN nominated the series Best TV Action Series for two years in a row.
STRIKE BACK is a CINEMAX Presentation in association with British Sky Broadcasting Limited; a Left Bank Pictures Production; executive producers, Andy Harries for Left Bank and Cameron Roach for Sky; series producers, Michael Casey and Sharon Hughff.
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