This evening at the Bruin Theater in Los Angeles, Apple TV+ held the premiere event for the highly anticipated limited series crime drama “Black Bird,” starring Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser.
Attendees at the red carpet premiere included showrunner and executive producer Dennis Lehane, executive producer and star Egerton, as well as cast members Walter Hauser, Greg Kinnear, Sepideh Moafi and the real-life James Keene.
From writer and executive producer Lehane, the six episode season will launch globally on Friday, July 8 with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday, on Apple TV+. In addition to Egerton and Walter Hauser, the ensemble cast includes Kinnear, Moafi and Ray Liotta.
Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero and decorated policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Walter Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall’s appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar? This dramatic and captivating story subverts the crime genre by enlisting the help of the very people put behind bars to solve its mysteries.
“Black Bird” is developed and executive produced by Lehane. The first three episodes are directed by Academy Award nominee Michaël R. Roskam (“Bullhead,” “The Drop”), who also serves as executive producer. Lehane, Egerton and Roskam executive produce alongside Richard Plepler through his EDEN Productions; Bradley Thomas, Dan Friedkin and Ryan Friedkin executive produce through Imperative Entertainment; Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert executive produce through EMJAG Productions; and Kary Antholis also executive produces, along with the book’s author Keene. Jim McKay and Joe Chappelle also direct. The limited series is produced for Apple TV+ by Apple Studios.
