Apple TV + continues to bet on the quality of its content with new titles that will arrive in 2022 to continue nourishing its platform, such as The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, The Afterparty, They Call Me Magic, We Crashed, Shining Girls and Severance, which promise to keep the public glued to the screen.
It should be remembered that his original productions have already been awarded such as the series Ted Lasso (by Jason Sudeikis, which has been awarded seven Emmy awards) and The Morning Show (with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, which added seven Emmy nominations), in addition films like CODA (which earned three BAFTA nominations) and The Tragedy of Macbeth (with Denzel Washington and a BAFTA contender for Best Cinematography).
- The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray – Premiere: March 11.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson and Dominique Fishback.
Based on Walter Mosley’s acclaimed bestseller of the same name, the six-episode miniseries will follow Ptolemy Gray (Samuel L. Jackson), a man with Alzheimer’s who has been forgotten by his family, friends and even himself.
Everything will change when, accompanied by a new ally, a teenager named Robyn (Dominique Fishback), he discovers a treatment that will temporarily restore his memory, starting a trip to the past that will affect his present and future.
“I come from a family where I’ve been surrounded by people with Alzheimer’s: my grandfather, my uncle, my aunt, my mom and people from my dad’s family who have had it, and I’ve seen them change over the years and become different people.
“Being able to tell this story having seen them and understanding their process, to give the audience the opportunity to understand and value as well, has meant a lot to me,” said the Oscar nominee, who also serves as executive producer.
- The Afterparty – Premiere: Now on Apple TV+
Starring: Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Ben Schwartz, Ike Barinholtz, Ilana Glazer, Jamie Demetriou, and Dave Franco.
Created by Oscar-winning duo Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the series centers on solving a mysterious murder that occurred after a high school reunion. Each episode will explore each character’s version of what happened, inviting the viewer to explore across different genres.
“I’ve done a lot of different things throughout my career, but this was seen as a really fun opportunity to be able to try something else and explore different genres of movies that I really love.
“We wrote the roles and thought about who would be the people that we would love and who we admire in comedy for it, and luckily everyone wanted to do it, so it’s been really cool,” Miller said.
- They Call Me Magic – Premiere: April 22.
Starring: “Magic” Johnson.
Champion, leader, businessman and life fighter are some of the adjectives that describe former basketball player Earvin “Magic” Johnson, whose story will finally be brought to the small screen through his documentary series, They Call Me Magic, directed by Rick Famuyiwa .
“I’ve had people approach me before wanting to do something like this, but at the time I felt like the time wasn’t right, and after the release of Michael Jordan’s The Last Dance, a lot of people were like, ‘You need to do the of yours’.
“Now I felt like I was ready. I got a great partner with Apple, and I think it’s been an amazing journey that I’ve had with my life, and we’re going to tell that story, so I’m really excited and happy that it’s happening,” he shared. Johnson.
- WeCrashed – Premiere: March 18.
Starring: Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway.
Inspired by real events, the production created by Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello tells the story behind the WeWork empire, the company that grew from the sole idea of creating a coworking space that expanded globally and has been valued at 47 billion dollars. in less than a decade. And in less than a year its value plummeted. What Happened focuses on the love story between its creators, Adam (Jared Leto) and Rebekah Neumann (Anne Hathaway).
“We felt like approaching this plot from the love story side of it was unique in itself. You don’t talk about love in the creation of Facebook or Uber, or these other big companies, so it made us quite unique and honestly, it is the reality of what happened.
“There was no way to tell the story of WeWork without telling the story of Adam and Rebekah. The story of this company is, from our point of view, their love story,” Crevello explained.
- Shining Girls – Premiere: April 29.
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Jamie Bell, Wagner Moura, and Phillipa Soo.
Years after suffering a brutal attack, reality for Kirby Mazrachi (Elisabeth Moss) was never the same. Therefore, when she finds out that a recent murder could be related to her attacker, she will team up with reporter Dan Velázquez (Wagner Moura) to try to find the culprit and thus put an end to his ever-changing present by confront his past.
“What I enjoyed most about being able to direct something that I’m also acting in is that I had a more intimate understanding of the character in the script that I wouldn’t have had otherwise.
“It was a lot of work, but I felt like I wanted to try to do something new and I felt very confident and focused. I knew exactly what I wanted to say and in the end that’s the role of a director: to understand what the writer and creator want to say, and Spending so much time on this, I think I got it pretty good,” said Moss, who is also serving as series director.
- severity. Premiere: February 18.
Starring: Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower and John Turturro.
The fiction and drama series created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller follows the story of Mark Scout (Adam Scott), an employee of Lumon Industries, whose workers are subjected to a dismissal procedure in which their memories are surgically divided between their work and your personal life.
The daring experiment will be called into question when one of the former employees, a friend of Mark, forces him to discover the true nature of his work.
“Dan (Erickson) wrote something that in my mind was a very cool metaphor not only for what we do in our work, but with our lives and how we go through this experience of living it, what we spend our time on, what we question and what didn’t. All of these questions intrigued me and resonated with me to connect with the show,” Stiller shared.
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