Apple TV+ has unveiled a primary look at “The Large Cigar,” the upcoming restricted drama collection that chronicles the story of Black Panther chief Huey P. Newton’s escape to Cuba, and is predicated on the monumental, eponymous journal article of the identical identify.
“The Large Cigar” makes its international debut on Might 17 with the primary two episodes, adopted by new episodes each Friday by means of June 14. Legendary award-winning actor, producer and director Don Cheadle serves as director and government producer on the primary two episodes.
Based mostly on the journal article by Joshuah Bearman (“Argo”), who may also function government producer, “The Large Cigar” is the true story of Hollywood revolution assembly social revolution: it’s a wild caper of Black Panther founder Newton escaping from the FBI to Cuba with the help of famed producer Bert Schneider in an impossibly elaborate plan — involving a pretend film manufacturing — that goes unsuitable each means it presumably can. And one way or the other, it’s all true. Largely.
André Holland leads a famend ensemble forged together with Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, P. J. Byrne, Marc Menchaca, Moses Ingram, Rebecca Dalton, Olli Haaskivi, Jordane Christie and Glynn Turman.
The Large Cigar‘s showrunner is NAACP Picture Award winner Janine Sherman Barrois (“Claws,” “The Kings of Napa”) and Jim Hecht (“Successful Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”) penned the present’s first episode. The collection hails from Warner Bros. Tv, the place Barrois and her Folding Chair Productions are below an general deal. Barrois and Hecht are government producing alongside Bearman, Joshua Davis and Arthur Spector (“Little America”) by means of their manufacturing firm Epic.
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