Apple TV+ today unveiled the trailer for “Invasion,” a new 10-episode science fiction drama series starring Sam Neill from Academy and Emmy Award-nominated writer/producer/director Simon Kinberg (“X-Men” films, “Deadpool” films, “The Martian”) and David Weil (“Hunters”).
The sweeping, character-driven Apple Original series, directed by Emmy Award nominee Jakob Verbruggen (“The Alienist,” “The Fall”), will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on October 22, 2021, followed by new episodes weekly, every Friday.
Set across multiple continents, “Invasion” follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. The series stars Sam Neill (“Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Peaky Blinders”), Shamier Anderson (“Bruised,” “Awake”), Golshifteh Farahani (“Extraction,” “Paterson,” “Body of Lies”), Firas Nassar (“Fauda”) and Shioli Kutsuna (“Deadpool 2,” “The Outsider”).
Hailing from Boat Rocker Studios, “Invasion” is written and executive produced by Kinberg and Weil. In addition to directing, Verbruggen serves as executive producer. Audrey Chon, Amy Kaufman and Elisa Ellis serve as executive producers alongside Andrew Baldwin, who also writes. Katie O’Connell Marsh serves as executive producer for Boat Rocker Studios.
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MacDailyNews Take: Oh, yes, we’ll be watching, suckers for the genre that we are!
Heroic Indian wife and family, hero black soldier, hero Japanese NASA scientist, racist white crackers and goofy Kiwi sheriff pretending to be American, seems to check most of the diversity boxes and accurately reflect reality, but no obvious tranny or gay, maybe that’s the POTUS.
yep, as much as I love sci-fi, this seems pretty formulaic.
Dinah Washington is turning in her grave after hearing that tired millennial-lament rendition of her sound.
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WTH, I’ll watch pretty much any science fiction as long as it isn’t made by Dimension Films (the Sharknado of film making).