Apple TV+ has shared a primary look at “Hijack,” a brand new seven-part thriller starring and govt produced by SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Idris Elba (“Luther”). “Hijack” will make its international debut with the primary two episodes on Wednesday, June 28 on Apple TV+.
Created by George Kay (“Lupin,” “Legal”) and Jim Subject Smith (“Legal,” “Fact Seekers”), who additionally wrote and lead directed the collection respectively, the collection additionally stars Emmy Award and NAACP Picture Award winner Archie Panjabi (“The Good Spouse,” “Snowpiercer,” “Blindspot”).
Right here’s how the collection is described: Toutdated in actual time, “Hijack” is a tense thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked airplane because it makes its approach to London over a seven-hour flight, and authorities on the bottom scramble for solutions. Elba will star as Sam Nelson, an achieved negotiator within the enterprise world who must step up and use all his guile to attempt to save the lives of the passengers — however, his high-risk technique could possibly be his undoing.
Panjabi will play the position of Zahra Gahfoor, a counterterrorism officer who’s on the bottom when the airplane is hijacked and turns into a part of the investigation. Along with Elba and Panjabi, the collection stars Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Eve Myles, Neil Maskell, Jasper Britton, Harry Michell, Aimée Kelly, Mohamed Elsandel and Ben Miles.
“Hijack” has been produced by 60Forty Movies, the manufacturing firm arrange by Emmy Award-winning govt producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta (“Sluggish Horses,” “The Essex Serpent”) underneath its unique content material cope with Apple TV+, alongside Kay and Subject Smith’s personal manufacturing firm Idiotlamp Productions, and in addition marks the primary collection to debut from Elba’s first-look cope with Apple TV+ and his Inexperienced Door Photos.
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