Entertainment Weekly’s James Hibberd reports 28-year-old Australian actor Liam McIntyre, who played Lew in “Iwo Jima,” the antepenultimate episode of HBO’s “The Pacific,” is Starz’s choice to replace the ailing Andy Whitfield in the title role of “Spartacus: Blood and Sand.”
The series, whose first season launched about this time last year, will see its second season debut about this time next year. Starz is currently airing the six-hour prequel miniseries “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.”
Find all of Hibberd’s story on the matter here.
