Apple has acquired the rights to a sequence that includes two huge names in Hollywood, Oscar Isaac and Ana de Armas. The present, tentatively titled Bananas, drew stiff competitors from potential patrons earlier than Apple TV+ emerged on the high.
Bananas sequence with Oscar Isaac and Ana de Armas to stream on Apple TV+
Bananas will star Oscar Isaac and Ana de Armas and premiere on Apple TV+ someday sooner or later. Isaac and Ana de Armas will reportedly govt produce the sequence alongside David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), who can even direct. Carolina Paiz, recognized for Orange is the New Black and Narcos, will reportedly function the present creator.
Fifth Season, the manufacturing firm behind one other Apple TV+ sequence Severance, will develop the sequence for the streaming platform.
That is mentioned to be Ana de Armas’ first English-language episodic challenge. The Cuban and Spanish actress beforehand portrayed vital roles in Antena 3’s Spanish sequence El Internado and Hispania, la leyenda. She has additionally labored in films like Knock Knock, Blade Runner 2049, Knives Out, Blonde, No Time to Die, Deep Water, and Eden. She is slated to star within the upcoming John Wick spin-off From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.
In the meantime, Oscar Isaac has a powerful small-screen resume that’s virtually on par along with his cinematic credit. He labored reverse Jessica Chastain in HBO’s adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage and portrayed a person with dissociative id dysfunction within the MCU sequence Moon Knight.
It’s unclear what the plot of Bananas will likely be, although we do know that Paiz has developed the screenplay and can govt produce. Deadline cited sources to assert that the sequence borrowed its identify from the time period banana republics, a typical English phrase usually used to confer with unstable and corrupt nations.