American Hostage has a house. The brand new psychological thriller has been ordered by MGM+. The sequence was introduced as in growth in November 2023.
Jon Hamm stars in Shawn Ryan’s sequence, which is impressed by a podcast. Ryan envisions the sequence as an anthology that follows a special hostage scenario every season.
MGM+ revealed the next concerning the sequence:
“Premium linear channel and streaming service MGM+ has introduced it has ordered the unique thrilling anthology sequence American Hostage (working title) from co-creator and government producer Shawn Ryan (The Night time Agent, S.W.A.T.) and co-creator and government producer Eileen Myers (Large Love, Mad Canine). The 8-episode gripping sequence produced by Sony Footage Tv will star Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor Jon Hamm within the function of Fred Heckman and can begin manufacturing in Winnipeg, Canada this Fall. Sony Footage Tv will distribute the sequence internationally.
Based mostly on the acclaimed first season of the scripted podcast of the identical title, American Hostage is a psychological thriller set within the Seventies that tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman (Hamm), a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who’s thrust into the center of a life-or-death disaster when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis calls for to be interviewed on his in style radio information program.”
The premiere date for this sequence shall be introduced later.
What do you assume? Will you watch this new sequence when it arrives on MGM+?