Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain is teaming up with Apple TV+ for The Savant, the streaming service’s new limited series. Chastain is committed to starring in The Savant and is also on board as an executive producer on the series which is inspired by a true story.
Apple TV+ announced the eight-episode series but didn’t release any details on the plot. What’s known is that it’s inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan. The August 2019 article by Andrea Stanley and titled “Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?” focuses on a top secret investigator known as the Savant who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.
Stanley is involved in the series as a consultant.
Emmy Award nominee Melissa James Gibson (House of Cards) will write and serve as showrunner. The FIFTH SEASON and Anonymous Content limited series is executive produced by Freckle Films’ Chastain and Kelly Carmichael, Gibson, and Cosmopolitan‘s Editor-in-Chief Jessica Giles. Oscar nominee and Emmy Award-winner Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) will direct and executive produce, with Hearst Magazines SVP of Development Brian Madden serving as a producer.
Jessica Chastain was nominated for Oscars for her performances in The Help and Zero Dark Thirty, and won the Best Actress Oscar for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Chastain’s also earned three Critics Choice awards, two National Board of Review awards, and three Screen Actors Guild awards.
Chastain’s credits include George & Tammy, The Good Nurse, Armageddon Time, and The Forgiven. Jessica Chastain recently finished work on Memory with Peter Sarsgaard and Mothers’ Instinct with Anne Hathaway.
