‘One Day’ actor, Leo Woodall and ‘Black Adam’ star Quintessa Swindell have been set to lead Apple TV+’s conspiracy thriller ‘Prime Target’.
The eight-episode series features a brilliant young math post-graduate, Edward Brooks, played by Woodall, on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon he begins to realize an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it’s even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders, a female NSA agent, played by Swindell, who’s been tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians’ behaviour. Together they start to piece the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.
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The cast also includes Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award winner Stephen Rea (The Crying Game), BAFTA Award nominee David Morrissey (Sherwood, The Walking Dead), Emmy Award winner Martha Plimpton (The Regime), BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Sidse Babbett Knudsen (Borgen), SAG Award nominee Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), BAFTA Award nominee Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones), Ali Suliman (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Paradise Now), Fra Fee (Rebel Moon, Hawkeye) and Joseph Mydell (The Eternal Daughter).
The show is created by award-winning writer Steve Thompson (Sherlock, Vienna Blood) who also serves as executive producer, the new drama is produced for Apple TV+ by New Regency with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free. Acclaimed writer and director Brady Hood (Top Boy, Great Expectations) directed all eight episodes and also serves as executive producer.