Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain is able to take an enormous chew out of a juicy function at Apple TV+.
Recent off her co-leading function in Showtime’s George & Tammy, Chastain has signed on to headline and function an government producer on The Savant, Apple TV+ introduced on Monday.
Though “storyline and character particulars are being stored below wraps” (per Apple TV+), the eight-episode restricted collection is impressed by a real story written by Andrea Stanley and revealed in Cosmopolitan. The lead for that August 2019 Cosmo story reads, “You’ve by no means heard of her, however someplace in America, a prime secret investigator generally known as the Savant is infiltrating on-line hate teams to take down probably the most violent males within the nation.”
Melissa James Gibson (Anatomy of Scandal, Home of Playing cards) will function showrunner on the collection and exec-produce alongside director Matthew Heineman, Chastain, Kelly Carmichael, Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Jessica Giles and Hearst Magazines’ Brian Madden. Andrea Stanley will seek the advice of.
Chastain is understood for her work in motion pictures equivalent to The Eyes of Tammy Faye (for which she gained her Oscar), The Good Nurse, Zero Darkish Thirty and Interstellar, whereas her early- to mid-2000s TV roles included visitor spots on Veronica Mars, Legislation & Order: Trial by Jury, Near House, ‘Til Dying and others
Final yr in Showtime’s aforementioned Tammy & George mini, she performed Tammy Wynette to Michael Shannon’s George Jones, a task for which she gained a SAG Award and netted a Golden Globe nomination.
Chastain presently leads Broadway’s revival of the 1879 Henrik Ibson play A Doll’s Home, the place she performs Nora Helmer, a housewife who challenges conventional gender roles, reverse Succession’s Arian Moayed, who performs Nora’s husband, Torvald.
