Jessica Chastain resides a double life within the very first take a look at Apple TV+‘s upcoming crime thriller sequence, The Savant.
In a newly launched trailer, the Oscar-winning actress resides by day as a suburban mother and spouse, hanging out along with her husband (Nnamdi Asomugha) and their two children. By evening, nonetheless, Jodi (Chastain) is a terrorist searching operative set on stopping extremist assaults earlier than they occur.
“I monitor people who find themselves planning assaults,” Chastain says within the trailer. “My job is pretending to assume like them, to cease these folks from doing actually dangerous issues.”
To cease “snipers, bombings, ambushes,” as her character notes within the trailer, Jodi should infiltrate on-line boards and hate teams to watch potential threats and to suss out the precise second that hate speech and intolerance can flip probably lethal.
The wild sequence is predicated on a real story, which was first lined in a 2019 Cosmopolitan article written by Andrea Stanley, through which the writer asks, “Is It Potential to Cease a Mass Capturing Earlier than It Occurs?” The true Savant’s identify, location, and different figuring out particulars have by no means been launched, and what’s extra, the unique article posits that her job is so hush-hush that a lot of her family has no clue what she does.
Whereas the present — penned by The People and Home of Playing cards author Melissa James Gibson — is predicated on the true life-saving girl who goes just by “Ok” within the Cosmo article, the sequence follows Jodi as she tracks Jason (Pablo Schreiber), a suspicious determine with unwell intent.
“He’s recruiting for one thing,” Chastain says as scenes of Schreiber’s character firing a gun and organizing a bunch of cohorts play. “I don’t know what it’s, however it’s large. This man isn’t simply planning violence, he’s out to make an announcement… the sort that historical past refers to with a month and a date.”
Other than Chastain, Asomugha, and Schreiber, The Savant stars Succession alum Dagmara Domińczyk, Michael Mosley, James Badge Dale, Cole Doman, Trinity Lee Shirley, and Toussaint Francois Battiste.
The eight-episode sequence debuts on Apple TV+ with two episodes on Friday, September 26, with episodes releasing one after the other by Friday, November 7.
Apple TV+ comes with a seven-day free trial for brand new subscribers and has only one ad-free streaming plan accessible for $13.99/month.
