Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Metropolis,” Apple TV+’s epic-scale series inspired by Fritz Lang’s classic silent era sci-fi film, is set to be produced in Australia.
It is expected to make extensive use of a new ‘virtual production’ structure that is among the largest in the world.“Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail is writer, director and showrunner of the eight-part project.
It is being produced by NBCUniversal’s Universal Studio Group.The story takes place in the futuristic city of Metropolis. While the city’s wealthy elite enjoy a lavish life of comfort and ease in penthouses and pleasure gardens, scores of workers labor at dangerous machinery in the bowels of the city to keep everything running.
Freder Fredersen, the son of the most powerful man in Metropolis, has an awakening after meeting a young worker named Maria and witnessing a number of workers die in an industrial accident.
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