Axe is again. Damian Lewis, who departed Showtime’s “Billions” on the finish of Season 5, will return to the sequence in time for Season 7, the community introduced late Monday. Lewis, who stars with Guy Pearce in subsequent month’s MGM+ sequence “A Spy Among Friends,” will return for six of the 12 episodes of “Billions” set to air subsequent season.
Lewis is again as Bobby “Axe” Axelrod reverse Paul Giamatti, Corey Stoll and Maggie Siff. The present is at present in manufacturing in New York, and Lewis’ return had already been leaked through paparazzi images that confirmed him, in character, again together with his previous “Billions” co-stars.
Here’s the logline for subsequent season through Showtime: “In season seven, alliances are turned on their heads. Old wounds are weaponized. Loyalties are examined. Betrayal takes on epic proportions. Enemies develop into cautious mates. And Bobby Axelrod returns, as the stakes develop from Wall Street to the world.”
“Billions” additionally stars David Costabile, Asia Kate Dillon, Condola Rashad, Jeffrey DeMunn, Sakina Jaffrey and Daniel Breaker. Also, Toney Goins (who performs Philip) has been made a season common in Season 7.
As Variety wrote on the time of the Season 5 finale, “No Direction Home,” ultimately, “Lewis’ Axelrod, as soon as once more beneath the gun from legislation enforcement, escapes in cloak-and-dagger trend with a hoard of cash to Switzerland to keep away from prosecution in New York.”
That had left the door open that although Lewis would not be a sequence common, that the character returning to the “Billions” universe someday. Season 6 of “Billions” ran within the winter and early spring final yr, with the season finale on April 10, 2022.
Lewis gained an Emmy for enjoying U.S. Marine Corp. Sgt. Nicholas Brody on Showtime’s “Homeland,” from 2011 to 2013. He returned to the pay cabler for “Billions,” which premiered in January 2016.
Lewis’ exit from “Billions” in 2021 got here following the dying that yr of his spouse, actor Helen McCrory.
“Billions” comes from creators, govt producers and showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Beth Schacter additionally serves as showrunner and govt producer. The sequence was additionally created by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
As Paramount+ merges with Showtime, the corporate additionally just lately introduced that as much as 4 new “Billions” spinoff sequence are within the works. That contains “Billions: Miami” as a brand new installment set on this planet of personal aviation; “Billions: London,” set on this planet of U.Okay. finance; “Millions,” that includes various, 30-something, monetary mogul wannabes in Manhattan; and “Trillions,” primarily based on fictional tales of the richest folks on this planet.
