‘Vikings’ Star Alexander Ludwig To Join Michael Shannon In ‘Swing’

Exclusive: Alexander Ludwig is getting ready to Swing.

The Vikings actor is set to join Michael Shannon for the Ivy League rowing drama.Directed by Michael Mailer and written by Vojin Gjaja, Swing follows a group of friends and crew teammates in their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999.

Their lives are changed when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.

Ludwig is set to play Alex Singleton, the team leader who aspires to make the Olympic rowing team.

He is described as “cocky and arrogant with a mean streak”.

His teammates aren’t too fond of him but he is the strongest rower among them and his father is the school Athletic Director.Gjaja is a former armor officer in the United States Army and his screenplay is based on his experiences as an oarsman at Columbia University.

Shannon, who also serves

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