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Wild Issues is headed to Apple TV+. The streaming service has ordered the sequence impressed by the lives of Siegfried & Roy. Jude Legislation and Andrew Garfield have been forged because the duo.
Apple TV+ revealed extra in regards to the sequence in a press launch.
“At the moment, Apple TV+ introduced it has landed “Wild Issues,” a brand new restricted sequence that may star BAFTA Award winner and Academy Award nominee Jude Legislation (“The Younger Pope,” “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” upcoming “Black Rabbit”) and Tony Award winner and Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Andrew Garfield (“Underneath the Banner of Heaven,” “Tick, Tick… Increase!,” “We Dwell in Time”) as famend showmen Siegfried & Roy.
Written, showrun and government produced by six-time Emmy Award nominee John Hoffman (co-creator and showrunner, “Solely Murders within the Constructing”), the eight-episode, hourlong sequence tells the wild experience relationship story of two of the best showmen-magicians in historical past who, together with their white tigers, are tasked with turning Sin Metropolis right into a family-friendly vacation spot. The duo push the idea of phantasm versus actuality to the intense, personally and professionally, till tragedy reframes and opens a thriller surrounding their final fateful Las Vegas present. Legislation will star as Siegfried and Garfield will star as Roy, and the sequence is about to enter manufacturing this fall. Matt Shakman (“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” “WandaVision,” upcoming “The Implausible 4: First Steps”) will direct the pilot and function government producer.
Hailing from Apple Studios, the restricted sequence might be produced by Think about Leisure. “Wild Issues” relies on the buzzy Apple Unique Podcast, “Wild Issues: Siegfried & Roy.” Along with starring, Legislation and Garfield will function government producers. Showrunner Hoffman will government produce and direct alongside Shakman. Grazer, Kristen Zolner and Natalie Berkus will government produce for Think about Leisure, alongside government producers Tony Leondis and Kathy Ciric. Will Malnati, who conceived “Wild Issues: Siegfried & Roy,” will government produce the venture alongside Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Steven Leckart, who wrote, narrated and government produced the podcast for At Will Media.
Apple Unique Podcast “Wild Issues: Siegfried & Roy” premiered in 2022, and was the primary in-depth podcast sequence about essentially the most well-known and controversial magicians in historical past, who have been extensively misunderstood, ceaselessly satirized and feverishly criticized. The podcast goes behind the velvet curtain to look at the popular culture icons, lionized by a worldwide fan base for greater than 40 years, to deconstruct the illusions they created, the empire they constructed and what actually occurred on the evening {that a} tiger assault ended their reign. All eight components are actually streaming on Apple Podcasts.”
The premiere date for this sequence might be introduced later.
What do you assume? Do you intend to look at this new sequence on Apple TV+?