'Fargo' season 3 release date, cast news: Michael Stuhlbarg, Scoot McNairy and others join the cast of 'Fargo' this season

It's time to say hello to the cast of "Fargo" season 3. FX has announced (via the Hollywood Reporter) that Michael Stuhlbarg, Scoot McNairy, Shea Whigham, Karan Soni, Fred Melamed, and Thomas Mann will round out the cast of season 3. They join a cast that already includes Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jim Gaffigan and David Thewlis.

McGregor will be playing the Stussy brothers, Emmit and Ray, in the third season of "Fargo." This is going to be his first series-regular role. Emmit is a handsome and successful real estate mogul, while Ray is not as lucky as his brother. He is a parole officer who felt that he got the short end of the stick and he blames Emmit for his misfortunes.

Since Emmit is a bigtime entrepreneur and "the parking-lot king of Minnesota," he's going to need a trustworthy right-hand man. "Boardwalk Empire" star Stuhlbarg is going to portray that man, and he has been cast as Sy Feltz, Emmit's consigliere. Fellow "Boardwalk Empire" alum Whigham is set to play Moe Dammick, Meeker County's police chief.

Soni, the actor who played the taxi driver in "Deadpool," will portray a scientist named Dr. Homer Gilruth. "12 Years a Slave" actor McNairy is cast as Maurice LeFay, a stoner with a criminal past. Melamed will be playing a fast-talker named Howard Zimmerman, while Mann portrays acclaimed science fiction author Thaddeus Mobley.

Coon is set to portray Gloria Burgle, the police chief in Edna Valley and a newly divorced mother struggling to connect with the people around her. Winstead will be playing recent parolee Nikki Swango, and Thewlis will portray V.M. Vargas, a capitalist who gets mixed up with Emmit.

Production for season 3 will start in January next year in Calgary, and the season is expected to air sometime in 2017, although an official premiere date hasn't been announced yet.