First Look Promotional Photos + Premiere Date

Apple TV+ at the moment shared a primary have a look at “Hijack,” a brand new seven-part thriller starring and government produced by SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Idris Elba (“Luther”). “Hijack” will make its world debut with the primary two episodes on Wednesday, June 28 on Apple TV+.

Created by George Kay (“Lupin,” “Criminal”) and Jim Field Smith (“Criminal,” “Truth Seekers”), who additionally wrote and lead directed the sequence respectively, the sequence additionally stars Emmy Award and NAACP Image Award winner Archie Panjabi (“The Good Wife,” “Snowpiercer,” “Blindspot”).

Told in actual time, “Hijack” is a tense thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked aircraft because it makes its option to London over a seven-hour flight, and authorities on the bottom scramble for solutions. Elba will star as Sam Nelson, an completed negotiator within the enterprise world who must step up and use all his guile to try to save the lives of the passengers — however, his high-risk technique could possibly be his undoing. Panjabi will play the function of Zahra Gahfoor, a counterterrorism officer who’s on the bottom when the aircraft is hijacked and turns into a part of the investigation. In addition to Elba and Panjabi, the sequence stars Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Eve Myles, Neil Maskell, Jasper Britton, Harry Michell, Aimée Kelly, Mohamed Elsandel and Ben Miles.

“Hijack” has been produced by 60Forty Films, the manufacturing firm arrange by Emmy Award-winning government producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta (“Slow Horses,” “The Essex Serpent”) beneath its unique content material cope with Apple TV+, alongside Kay and Field Smith’s personal manufacturing firm Idiotlamp Productions, and in addition marks the primary sequence to debut from Elba’s first-look cope with Apple TV+ and his Green Door Pictures.