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Wild Things is headed to Apple TV+. The streaming service has ordered the collection impressed by the lives of Siegfried & Roy. Jude Law and Andrew Garfield have been solid because the duo.
Apple TV+ revealed extra concerning the collection in a press launch.
“Today, Apple TV+ announced it has landed “Wild Things,” a brand new restricted collection that may star BAFTA Award winner and Academy Award nominee Jude Law (“The Young Pope,” “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” upcoming “Black Rabbit”) and Tony Award winner and Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Andrew Garfield (“Under the Banner of Heaven,” “Tick, Tick… Boom!,” “We Live in Time”) as famend showmen Siegfried & Roy.
Written, showrun and govt produced by six-time Emmy Award nominee John Hoffman (co-creator and showrunner, “Only Murders in the Building”), the eight-episode, hourlong collection tells the wild journey relationship story of two of the best showmen-magicians in historical past who, together with their white tigers, are tasked with turning Sin City right into a family-friendly vacation spot. The duo push the idea of phantasm versus actuality to the acute, personally and professionally, till tragedy reframes and opens a thriller surrounding their final fateful Las Vegas present. Law will star as Siegfried and Garfield will star as Roy, and the collection is ready to enter manufacturing this fall. Matt Shakman (“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” “WandaVision,” upcoming “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”) will direct the pilot and function govt producer.
Hailing from Apple Studios, the restricted collection can be produced by Imagine Entertainment. “Wild Things” relies on the buzzy Apple Original Podcast, “Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy.” In addition to starring, Law and Garfield will function govt producers. Showrunner Hoffman will govt produce and direct alongside Shakman. Grazer, Kristen Zolner and Natalie Berkus will govt produce for Imagine Entertainment, alongside govt producers Tony Leondis and Kathy Ciric. Will Malnati, who conceived “Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy,” will govt produce the undertaking alongside Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Steven Leckart, who wrote, narrated and govt produced the podcast for At Will Media.
Apple Original Podcast “Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy” premiered in 2022, and was the primary in-depth podcast collection about probably the most well-known and controversial magicians in historical past, who have been extensively misunderstood, continuously satirized and feverishly criticized. The podcast goes behind the velvet curtain to look at the popular culture icons, lionized by a world fan base for greater than 40 years, to deconstruct the illusions they created, the empire they constructed and what actually occurred on the night time {that a} tiger assault ended their reign. All eight components at the moment are streaming on Apple Podcasts.”
The premiere date for this collection can be introduced later.
What do you think? Do you propose to observe this new collection on Apple TV+?
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