Idris Elba (Luther) has signed on to lead the limited Apple TV+ series Hijack, a thriller about a hijacked airplane with Elba negotiating for the passengers’ survival.
Elba will star and executive produce Hijack, which will be told in real time as the “hijacked flight makes a seven-hour journey toward London and authorities on the ground search for answers. Elba will play Sam Nelson, an accomplished negotiator in the business world who tries to step up and use all his guile to save the lives of the passengers. His high-risk strategy, however, could prove his undoing.”
Hijack has been written by George Kay (Netflix’s Lupin) with Jim Field Smith (Criminal) directing. Elba, Kay and Smith will executive produce through Elba’s Green Door Pictures, Kay and Smith’s Idiotlamp Productions with Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta of 60Forty Films and Kris Thykier.
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