Chris Rock will be the star of 'Fargo' season 4Aug 3 (AZINS) Making a dramatic move, comedian Chris Rock will now star in the fourth season of gritty show Fargo.

During the Television Critics Association's summer press tour, FX made the big announcement about one of their marquee shows. Rock isn't the only major change. The story is bidding goodbye to the state of Minnesota that has been the playing ground for previous three seasons of the show and the Coen brothers movie that made the basis for the show.

Moving towards the south, the new season will see the drama unfold in 1950's Kansas City. Doing away with another tradition of keeping the story under wraps, the channel handed out a detailed story description, reports Entertainment Weekly.

Official Synopsis -

In 1950, at the end of two great American migrations — that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the US at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York, Chicago — and African Americans who left the south in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities — you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.

Chris Rock plays the head of one family, a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son’s enemy as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes. It’s a story of immigration and assimilation, and the things we do for money. And as always, a story of basically decent people who are probably in over their heads. You know, Fargo.

In a statement released after the announcement, Rock said that he cannot wait to work with showrunner Noah Hawley.

The multi-Emmy-Winning show is yet to set a release date for the upcoming season. The production for the same is expected to begin in late 2019 or early 2020.