FX Boss Teases ‘Fargo’ Season 2; Will Have Ronald Reagan Character

New details have emerged about the second installment of FX’s “Fargo.”

“It’s a big, sprawling, in some ways more comedic, although at times very serious, show,” John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions, told reporters at the Television Critics Association Winter Tour in Pasadena on Sunday.

It was previously revealed that the show, from Creator Noah Hawley, would go back in time, and the FX boss said the presence of a man about to become President, looms.

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“It’s set in the late ’70s, against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for President of the United States. Reagan is a character in it, and some movies that he’s reputed to have made, but a lot of what it’s about is the cultural transformation that was going on in America at that time,” Landgraf explained. “So it’s about the sense of — that the war has come home, [Lou] Solverson is a [Vietnam] veteran, and it’s also about feminism, so there are some really significant female characters, as there were with Molly Solverson.”

After the panel, Access spoke with Landgraf who said the show is casting a Ronald Reagan. No one has been cast yet in the role, but the CEO did share with Access a few details about how he will figure into the drama.

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“He’ll just be himself as a Presidential candidate,” Landgraf said.

Landgraf confirmed the Reagan character will be “coming through town.”

FX previously announced that actor Patrick Wilson will play the younger Lou, the father of Molly (who was played by Allison Tolman in the first installment of “Fargo”). The young Lou has been described by the network as, “a clean cut Minnesota State Patrolman, four years back from Vietnam, where he served in the Navy.” Ted Danson is playing Hank Larsson, the Sheriff of Rock County, Minn., “an unflappable WWII vet who embodies a certain cowboy poetry, Hank is Lou’s father-in-law.” Jean Smart is playing Floyd Gerhardt, the matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family, who thinks it’s her time to run things now that her husband is out of the picture.

Landgraf also expanded after the panel about how much the young Molly, who is just 4 in the next installment of “Fargo,” will factor into the show.

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“Her father and her mother are main characters in the show, and I think part of what you see in the show is the environment Molly grew up in and who her father and mother were and how Molly became Molly,” he said.

The second series of “Fargo” will also feature Kirsten Dunst and “Breaking Bad” alum Jesse Plemons. It is expected to debut this fall on FX.

— Jolie Lash