MGM+ has shared the first trailer, a poster and images for American Hostage, the upcoming anthology series based on the acclaimed scripted podcast of the same name.
The psychological thriller series tells the story of a radio reporter who finds himself trapped in a terrifying, impossible situation when a man holding his mortgage broker hostage demands to be interviewed on a live broadcast.
The cast includes Jon Hamm as Fred Heckman, Giovanni Ribisi as Tony Kiritsis, Kristoffer Polaha as Dick Hall, William Jackson Harper as Ben Hairston, Mireille Enos as Barbara Heckman, Jonathan Tucker as FBI Special Agent Cormac McNally, and Kat Cunning as Ibby Hall. Watch the trailer below…
American Hostage is a psychological thriller set in the 1970s that tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman, a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.
American Hostage premieres on MGM+ on September 20th.
