Jason Momoa to Star in Netflix Adventure Drama ‘Frontier’ from ‘San Andreas

Jason Momoa, or you might know him as Game of Thrones‘ Khal Drogo, will star in a six-episode Netflix drama Frontier, Variety reports. The native tribes and the western Europeans who forced their way onto the lands were constantly at odds with each other, and the series follows this conflict very closely.

Discovery Canada, which originally developed and greenlit the project, will broadcast the series in Canada, before it arrives on Netflix Canada in 2018, according to a network press release.

The new drama centres on the sometimes bloody struggle for wealth and power in the North American fur trade of the late 18th century.

Republic of Doyle’s Peter and Rob Blackie created the drama, with executive producers Jeff Fierson, Brad Peyton, Alex Patrick, and John Vatcher. It will premiere in Canada in 2016 on Bell Media specialty net Discovery Canada and, within an exclusive 18-month window, Discovery GO and Bell Media’s SVOD service, CraveTV.

The series, which will be told from multiple perspectives, also stars also stars Netflix original series alum Landon Liboiron (Hemlock Grove), Alun Armstrong (Braveheart), and Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey).

Starring in the lead role is American actor Jason Momoa, the Game of Thrones season one star who is also set to appear in 2016′s Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

As for Netflix, this is the second time the company has recently teamed with a Canadian channel to bring a show stateside. It will join a jam-packed slate of high profile new series that Netflix has scheduled to kick off next year, including Marvel’s Luke Cage, the Fuller House reboot, and the Ashton Kutcher series, The Ranch.