Apple TV+ has a sweet update to share about its big acquisition from 2021: The streamer has greenlit Sugar to series. It stars Colin Farrell and is from creator Mark Protosevich (The Cell, I Am Legend).Farrell will also executive produce the genre-bending series from Apple Studios along with Protosevich, Simon Kinberg (X-Men), Audrey Chon (Invasion) and Scott Greenberg (The Guilty).
Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) will direct as well as EP. Chip Vucelich also executive produces.As Deadline reported exclusively in December, Apple TV+ outbid Netflix for the potential TV series.
The plot has been kept under wraps but we heard it was a Los Angeles-based, contemporary take on the private detective story.Sugar marks the second collaboration for Kinberg’s Genre Films and Apple TV+, and will stream alongside Invasion, which recently received a second season renewal.
The series is described as a moving, character-driven science-fiction drama that was co-created, written and executive produced by Kinberg and David Weil.Farrell is repped by CAA, managers Ilene Feldman and Claudine Farrell and attorney Steve Warren.
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