Joel Kinnaman Joins Ronald D. Moore’s Space Drama For Apple
Joel Kinnaman might not be returning to ‘Altered Carbon’, but he’s sticking to sci-fi as he boards Ronald D. Moore upcoming space drama for Apple it has been announced, along with Sarah Jones and Michael Dorman.
The currently untitled drama comes from Ronald D. Moore, the man behind ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Outlander’, and takes place in a world where the global space race of the 60s had never ended. According to Deadline, who broke the news, Kinnaman is set to stars as Edward Baldwin, one of the top astronauts in NASA. Sarah Jones and Michael Dorman will play Gordo and Tracy Stevens, a high-profile, married couple working for NASA.
Kinnaman recently starred as the main “sleeve” of Takeshi Kovacs, the lead character in the Netflix series ‘Altered Carbon’. Somewhat like ‘Doctor Who’, the role can be passed on to new actors each season, so Anthony Mackie (‘Marvel’s Avengers’ movies) will take over as Kovacs for Season 2. Kinnaman also starred as Will Conway in ‘House of Cards’, Holder in ‘The Killing’ and Rick Flag in ‘Suicide Squad’.
Michael Dorman has been starring as the lead in the Amazon series ‘Patriot’, which is due to return for a 2nd Season later this year. If ‘Patriot’ does go to a 3rd season, they will have work around his shooting schedule on the Apple series. Dorman also starred in Australian series’ ‘Wonderland’, ‘The Secret Life of Us’ and the movie ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’.
Sarah Jones recently starred in the short-lived USA Network/Netflix series ‘Damnation’, and Hulu series ‘The Path’ with Aaron Paul. Previously she’s also starred as Polly on the brilliant ‘Sons of Anarchy’, and played Brynn in ‘Big Love’.
At the moment, not a lot is really known about the rollout of Apple’s new tv streaming service, but they have been gathering up various high-end tv content read for the launch. Along with the Ronald D. Moore series they have reboot of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Amazing Stories’; ‘See’, which is an “epic, world-building drama” from Steven Knight & Francis Lawrence starring Jason Momoa; ‘Little America’ from ‘The Big Sick’ creators Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon; A comedy from Kristen Wiig; And a psychological thriller from M. Night Shyamalan. It’s still not entirely clear how Apple are going to be releasing this new content. Whether it’s going to be some sort of new separate streaming app, or integrated in some way into the iTunes model remains to be seen.
We’ll let you know when we hear more.
