Alessandro Nivola To Co-Star With André Holland in The Apple Original Limited Series ‘The Big Cigar’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Alessandro Nivola is set to co-star alongside André Holland in Apple TV+’s The Big Cigar, a new, six episode limited series that will chronicle the story of Black Panther leader Huey P.
Newton’s escape to Cuba. The new series will be showrun and executive produced by NAACP Image Award winner Janine Sherman Barrois , with Holland starring as Newton, and Don Cheadle on board to direct and executive produce the first two episodes.
The growing ensemble cast also includes Tiffany Boone.2022 Apple TV+ Pilots & Series OrdersWith the first episode written and executive produced by Jim Hecht, and based on the eponymous Playboy magazine article from Joshuah Bearman, The Big Cigar tells the extraordinary, hilarious, almost-too-good-to-be-true story of how Newton relied on his best friend, Bert Schneider (Nivola), the Hollywood producer behind Easy Rider, to elude a nationwide manhunt and escape to Cuba while being pursued into exile by the FBI.The series hails from Warner Bros.
Television, where Sherman Barrois and her Folding Chair Productions are under an overall deal. The drama is executive produced by Hecht and Sherman Barrois, as well as Bearman, Joshua Davis, and Arthur Spector, through their production company Epic, a division of Vox Media Studios.This marks the latest collaboration for Apple TV+ and Warner Bros.
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