Apple is slowly but surely building up a nice little library of television shows. Now the company has added one more to its roster: a series called See, which is written by Eastern Promises and Taboo writer Steven Knight and will be directed by Francis Lawrence, the filmmaker behind I Am Legend and the Hunger Games sequels. Read more about the newest Apple sci-fi series below. Deadline reports that Apple has given a straight-to-series order to See, which is being described as an “epic, world-building drama” that’s set in the future. Those are literally all of the concrete details we have about the show at this stage, but Deadline also mentions that while the number of episodes is officially yet to… [Read More...]
Steven Knight Talks ‘Taboo’ TV Series: “I Don’t Think Anything Has Ever Been Like It”
Taboo marks another collaboration between Steven Knight and actor Tom Hardy. The BBC and FX series follows up their work together on Peaky Blinders season two and Knight’s spellbinding second feature, Locke. The dark and atmospheric trailer for their series made it look unlike any show coming out. In Knight’s opinion, there hasn’t ever been a show quite like it. Below, Steven Knight discusses the Taboo TV series. Steven Knight, Tom Hardy, and Hardy’s father, Chips Hardy, created the eight-episode series. Set in 1814 during wartime, the story follows James Keziah Delaney (Hardy), who returns to London from Africa. After inheriting his father’s shipping empire, which he refuses to sell to the East India Trading Company, Delaney makes some new enemies and… [Read More...]