Three years after “Atlanta” wrapped its acclaimed run, Brian Tyree Henry has lined up his subsequent large TV position.
The actor leads “Dope Thief,” a brand new Apple TV+ collection from creator and government producer Peter Craig that sees him play a profession prison who impersonates a DEA agent as half of a bigger plot to rob a drug den. The collection hails from Ridley Scott, who directs the pilot and serves as an government producer by his Scott Free manufacturing firm.
An official synopsis for the collection reads: “Based mostly on Dennis Tafoya’s e book of the identical title, the collection follows long-time Philly pals and delinquents who pose as DEA brokers to rob an unknown home within the countryside, solely to have their small-time grift change into a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the most important hidden narcotics hall on the Jap seaboard.”
Along with Henry, the collection stars Wagner Moura, Marin Eire, Kate Mulgrew, Nesta Cooper, Amir Arison, Dustin Nguyen, and Ving Rhames.
Followers of Scott seldom have to attend lengthy for his subsequent mission, because the 87-year-old continues to work at a breakneck tempo. He’s presently gearing as much as direct his “Gladiator II” star Paul Mescal in “The Canine Stars,” a post-apocalyptic movie about two solitary folks residing in an airplane hangar after a disaster wipes out humanity as they understand it. That movie relies on a 2012 e book of the identical title by Peter Heller, with “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Smith adapting the novel for the large display.
Scott can also be growing a movie concerning the Bee Gees for Paramount, and has teased the potential of making a 3rd “Gladiator” film that will spherical out his trilogy.
“I’ve lit the fuse,” Scott just lately mentioned of his “Gladiator III” thought. “The ending of ‘Gladiator II’ is paying homage to ‘The Godfather,’ with Michael Corleone discovering himself with a job he didn’t need, and questioning, ‘Now, Father, what do I do?‘ So the subsequent [film] can be a few man who doesn’t need to be the place he’s.”
The primary two episodes of “Dope Thief” premiere on Friday, March 14, with new episodes releasing weekly on Apple TV+ till the finale streams on April 25. Watch the trailer beneath.