Apple TV+ goes darkish with its newest collection order.
The streamer has greenlit a drama starring Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham that tracks the face-off between a murder detective and a serial killer. The untitled present relies on a collection of best-selling crime novels by Lars Kepler.
Rowan Joffe (Tin Star, 28 Weeks Later) and John Hlavin (Shooter, The Man Who Fell to Earth) are adapting the books and can function showrunners. Tim Van Patten (The Sopranos, Masters of the Air) will direct the primary two episodes and government produce with Joffe and Hlavin.
Lars Kepler is the pen title of married couple Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. The collection will probably be based mostly on Kepler’s Joona Linna collection, transplanting the motion from Sweden to the USA.
The present’s description reads, “Jonah Lynn (Schreiber), an ex-soldier turned murder detective, uninterested in working the robust streets of Philadelphia, strikes to a small city in western Pennsylvania for a quiet life. However because the city and his household come below assault from the diabolically crafty serial killer Jurek Walter (Graham), Jonah should defend all that he holds pricey. When the determined seek for Jurek’s final lacking sufferer forces Jonah to ship his adopted daughter, FBI Agent Saga Bauer (Beetz), up towards Jurek, how far will Jonah go?”
Schreiber is coming off of The Good Couple at Netflix. The Ray Donovan star will subsequent be seen in Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, due in theaters Aug. 29. Beetz (Atlanta) does voice work on Prime Video’s Invincible and starred with Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga in Joker: Folie a Deux. The Apple collection follows Netflix’s breakout Adolescence for Graham, who additionally has a task within the Bruce Springsteen biopic Ship Me From Nowhere.
A+E Studios is producing the collection in affiliation with Vary Studios. Joffe, Hlavin and Van Patten government produce with Schreiber, Beetz (through her Sleepy Poppy banner), Lars Kepler (Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril), Oystein Karlsen, David Rysdahl, Dorothy Fortenberry and Niclas Salomonsson. Julie Herrin is co-exec producer.