Trailer: André Holland stars in Apple’s The Big Cigar
David Farnor | On 27, Apr 2024
André Holland is heading to Apple TV+ to smoke The Big Cigar, and a new trailer gives us a first look at the series.
The six-part series – based on the magazine article of the same name by Joshuah Bearman (Argo) – tells the incredible true story of Hollywood revolution meeting social revolution. It’s a wild caper about Black Panther founder Huey P Newton escaping from the FBI to Cuba with the assistance of famed producer Bert Schneider in an impossibly elaborate plan — involving a fake movie production — that goes wrong every way it possibly can.
Holland will play Newton, alongside an ensemble cast that includes Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Marc Menchaca, Moses Ingram, Rebecca Dalton, Olli Haaskivi, Jordane Christie and Glynn Turman. Behind the camera, Janine Sherman Barrois (Claws, Self Made) is the showrunner, with exec-producer Jim Hecht (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) penning the show’s first episode. The series hails from Warner Bros Television, where Sherman Barrois and her Folding Chair Productions are under an overall deal. Sherman Barrois and Hecht are executive producing alongside Bearman, Joshua Davis and Arthur Spector (Little America) through their production company Epic.
The series will premiere on 18th May, with the first two episodes arriving together, followed by new episodes weekly until the finale on 14th June.
Here’s the trailer: