If Apple TV+ is going to attract me to some of their upcoming projects, this is the way to do it. Ramin Bahrani, the acclaimed filmmaker behind 99 Homes, At Any Price, Goodbye Solo, and Netflix’s The White Tiger, has signed on to direct an exec-produce The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, which has Samuel L. Jackson as star. Not only that, but Dominique Fishback has been namd as the series’ latest castmember.
Apple has announced Bahrani is set to direct The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, which stars Jackson as “a 91 year old man forgotten by his family, by his friends, by even himself. On the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy experiences a seismic shift when he’s given the tremendous opportunity to briefly regain his memories, and uses this precious and fleeting lucidity to solve his nephew’s death and come to terms with his past.”
Fishback is currently earning rave reviews for her quietly powerful performance in Judas and the Black Messiah. She’s also been featured on HBO’s Show Me a Hero and The Deuce, plus Netflix superhero film Project Power. Her best role, however, was in the little-seen drama Night Comes On from a few years ago. Seek it out if you can.
Bahrani is a director who likes to tackle big social issues in his films, so we can expect something like that in this series has attracted his attention.
