Created by George Kay (“Lupin,” “Legal”) and Jim Subject Smith (“Legal,” “Reality Seekers”), who additionally wrote and lead directed the sequence respectively, the sequence additionally stars Emmy Award and NAACP Picture Award winner Archie Panjabi (“The Good Spouse,” “Snowpiercer,” “Blindspot”).
Instructed in actual time, “Hijack” is a tense thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked aircraft because it makes its option to London over a seven-hour flight, and authorities on the bottom scramble for solutions. Elba will star as Sam Nelson, an completed negotiator within the enterprise world who must step up and use all his guile to attempt to save the lives of the passengers — however, his high-risk technique may very well be his undoing. Panjabi will play the position of Zahra Gahfoor, a counterterrorism officer who’s on the bottom when the aircraft is hijacked and turns into a part of the investigation. Along with Elba and Panjabi, the sequence stars Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Eve Myles, Neil Maskell, Jasper Britton, Harry Michell, Aimée Kelly, Mohamed Elsandel and Ben Miles.
“Hijack” has been produced by 60Forty Movies, the manufacturing firm arrange by Emmy Award-winning govt producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta (“Sluggish Horses,” “The Essex Serpent”) beneath its unique content material take care of Apple TV+, alongside Kay and Subject Smith’s personal manufacturing firm Idiotlamp Productions, and likewise marks the primary sequence to debut from Elba’s first-look take care of Apple TV+ and his Inexperienced Door Photos.
