Bill Nighy Joins Apple TV’s Cult Horror Series ‘Ascension’
Bill Nighy has joined Apple TV’s cult horror series ‘Ascension’, hailing from filmmaker Alfon Cuarón and starring Caitríona Balfe.
Actor Bill Nighy (pictured above in Underworld) has already ascended to genre legend status, but that isn’t stopping him from joining Apple TV’s cult horror series, Ascension, reports Deadline.
Inspired by Adam Nevill‘s novel Last Days, the series follows Rose, “a relentless documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother, brilliant at uncovering others’ truths but struggling to resolve her own. When Rose begins a project on a mysterious 20th-century cult known as the Church of Ascension, she finds unexpected refuge in its teachings – until she discovers something far more insidious beneath.”
Ascension hails from Alfon’s Cuarón (Gravity).
Caitríona Balfe (Outlander) will play Rose.
Cuarón co-wrote the series with his brother Carlos Cuarón as well as Natalie Erika James (Relic) and Christian White (Apartment 7A). All four will also executive produce. James and White will both serve as co-showrunners, with James as lead director.
Esperanto Filmoj’s Gabriela Rodriguez and Richard Schwartz will executive produce, alongside Steve Golin, David Levine and Zack Hayden for Anonymous Content. Balfe will also executive produce.
Of course, Cuarón is well-known as the director of the dystopian Children of Men (a film full of sequences I can’t shake). He also directed the Sandra Bullock film Gravity, which contains some incredibly haunting images of space.
