Photos: First Look at STARZ's New Crime Drama Series FIGHTLAND

STARZ has revealed the premiere date for Fightland, a new original series coming to the channel on Friday, July 31. Check out newly released first-look images of the family crime drama below.

Fightland follows a disgraced, formerly incarcerated boxing champion who returns to London to seek vengeance against the crime syndicate he thinks betrayed him. On the night Duke Kilroy (Howard Charles) becomes world heavyweight champion, a vicious assault leaves his brother, Calvin, dead, causing Duke to snap and results in him spending eight years in a U.S. prison.

Upon his release, and after having made a sinister discovery, Duke returns home seeking vengeance against the man he believes set him up: the criminal kingpin and former promoter, Kingsley Marshall (Nicholas Pinnock). But Kingsley has vanished, leaving his children and wife, Joy (Deborah Ayorinde), who happens to be the love of Duke’s life, to pick up the pieces.

Working with a cartel desperate to control London’s drug market, Duke begins a high-risk game of infiltrating Kingsley’s empire to destroy it from within and smoke out his enemy. But amidst a volatile criminal landscape, and competing influences threatening to pull him off course, Duke will need to channel everything that made him a champion fighter into his bloody pursuit to win the ultimate victory: revenge for his brother.

 In addition to Charles, Pinnock and Ayorinde, Fightland stars Anita-Joy Uwajeh as Cebella “Cece” Marshall, Charles Babalola as Ezekiel “Zeek” Marshall, Tahirah Sharif as Kim Harper, Tyler Conti as Justin “Jay” Hall and Richard Pepple as Gary “Gazzer” Kilroy. The show is executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson through his G-Unit Film & Television, and marks STARZ’s first wholly owned series.

Other executive producers include Francis Hopkinson (“Wallander,” “Bancroft”) and Kate Leadbetter (“Woman in White,” “Catherine the Great”) of Expanded Media, who also produce.  The series is created by Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan & Marlon Smith (“Run”, “Save Me”), who also serve as executive producers and writers, and Damione Macedon (“Power,” “BMF,” “Genius: MLK/X”) & Raphael Jackson Jr. (“Power,” “BMF,” “Genius: MLK/X”) who serve as showrunners, executive producers and writers. Otto Bathurst (“Peaky Blinders”) directs and executive-produces the first two episodes.

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