Apple TV has launched the primary trailer for Black Chook, a brand new restricted collection which stars Taron Egerton as Jimmy Keene, a convicted drug supplier who’s given the selection of a lifetime — befriend a suspected serial killer in a maximum-security jail for the criminally insane. Black Chook additionally occurs to function one among Ray Liotta’s final roles, and though he isn’t featured quite a bit within the trailer, his presence does loom massive within the opening moments.
Based mostly on the autobiographical novel In With The Satan: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Harmful Cut price for Redemption by James Keene, Black Chook was developed by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), who additionally wrote and govt produced the collection. Ray Liotta performs Huge Jim Keene, a adorned and beloved former policeman. Upon studying of Ray Liotta’s loss of life, Lehane remembered him as “essentially the most electrical American actor of his technology,” including that he wrote the a part of Huge Jim Keene particularly for Liotta and that it was the “end result of a lifelong dream” to work with him. Along with Taron Egerton and Ray Liotta, Black Chook additionally stars Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi, and Greg Kinnear.
The official synopsis for Black Chook:
Impressed by precise occasions, when highschool soccer hero and adorned policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum-security jail, he’s given the selection of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security jail for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Corridor (Paul Walter Hauser), or keep the place he’s and serve his full sentence with no risk of parole. Keene rapidly realizes his solely means out is to elicit a confession and discover out the place the our bodies of a number of younger ladies are buried earlier than Corridor’s attraction goes by. However is that this suspected killer telling the reality? Or is it simply one other story from a serial liar? This dramatic and fascinating story subverts the crime style by enlisting the assistance of the very folks put behind bars to resolve its mysteries.
Black Chook will debut on Apple TV+ on July 8, 2022.
