Fargo season 4: Chris Rock joins cast as first details announced

Fans will be thrown back in time once again for the next run of episodes

The first details for Fargo season 4 have begun to roll in.

First up, Chris Rock will appear in the next run of Noah Hawley's successful anthology series which has been described as a story of “immigration and assimilation and the things we do for money” set in Kansas City, Missouri.

He'll be playing the boss of a criminal syndicate who, in order to make peace with another, trades his eldest son having to raise his enemy's so as his own. However, when the rival syndicate leader dies, their truce is thrown into confusion.

The new season will be throwing viewers back in time once again setting the story in 1950

There's currently no word on who else will star but Rock's appointment follows in the footsteps of Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Carrie Coon who have all starred in varying roles across its past three seasons.