Apple today unveiled a first look and the premiere date for ‘Black Bird,’ a gritty, suspenseful six-episode psychological thriller starring Taron Egerton.
Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero, decorated policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton) 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. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall’s appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar?
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The series is adapted from the true-crime memoir “In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene and Hillel Levin.
In addition to Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser, the series stars Sepideh Moafi, Greg Kinnear and Ray Liotta.
The series will premiere globally with the first two episodes on Friday, July 8, 2022 on Apple TV+, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday.
