EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has greenlighted The Wanted Man, an eight-episode thriller drama starring Hugh Laurie (House, The Night Manager) from Hijack co-creator George Kay, New Pictures (The Long Shadow) and Kay’s Observatory Pictures.
Clockwise Top L-R: Thandiwe Newton, Fionn Whitehead, Gina McKee, Hazel Doupe, Elliott Heffernan and Stephen Dillane
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Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Gina McKee (My Policeman), Hazel Doupe (Say Nothing), Blitz star Elliott Heffernan and Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones) also star in the series,created, written and executive produced by Kay.
The Wanted Man charts the rise and fall of Felix Carmichael (Laurie), the elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate ‘The Capital.’ Untouchable for twenty years, Carmichael is finally apprehended, but while he’s held in the infamous Staplehurst prison, it becomes clear that he’s been betrayed by one of his own. As the traitor moves to dismantle the empire he has built, Carmichael must risk everything in a daring escape. Willing to stop at nothing to take his revenge, if he succeeds, he’ll be a wanted man once more.
Newton is believed to be playing a single mother, with Heffernan as her son. McKee is believed to be playing Felix’s wife, Dillane his older brother.
This marks SAG Award and Golden Globe winner Laurie’s return to Apple TV+ where he most recently starred on Season 2 of Tehran.
The Wanted Man is co-produced by New Pictures and Kay’s Observatory Pictures. Kay, who also serves as showrunner, executive produces alongside Willow Grylls (The Missing) and Matt Sandford (The Long Shadow). The series is directed Jakob Verbruggen (The Fall).
The Wanted Man is Apple TV+’s latest drama out of U.K., joining Hijack, starring and executive produced by Idris Elba, Slow Horses, headlined by Gary Oldman, and the upcoming Down Cemetery Road, starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, among others.
