‘Black Bird’: Ray Liotta and Taron Egerton Are Father and Incarcerated Son in Apple TV+ Trailer
variety.comSelome Hailu Apple TV+ has debuted a trailer for “Black Bird,” the streamer’s upcoming psychological thriller limited series starring Taron Egerton and Ray Liotta.
The project is set to premiere on July 8.The six-episode series follows Jimmy Keene (Egerton), a high school football hero and the son of decorated policeman “Big Jim” (Liotta), who is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison.
He is given the choice of a lifetime: enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. “Black Bird” is based on the 2010 true crime memoir “In With the Devil.” “I never wanted this for you,” Liotta says in the trailer as Big Jim, visiting Keene in prison. “I wanted a totally different life.
A steady paycheck. Kids. A family.”“Dad. Tell me there’s a way out of this,” Egerton says as Keene.“Not a quick one,” Big Jim replies.The trailer then sees Keene move to the maximum-security prison, attempting to get close to Hall without raising suspicion about his motives.
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