Marvel star Tom Hiddleston is set to star in the limited series, ‘The White Darkness’, based on David Grann’s nonfiction book for Apple TV+.
The series is developed by ‘Pachinko’ creator Soo Hugh and Hugh and ‘Strange Angel’ creator and ‘Black Swan’ writer Mark Heyman will serve as the showrunners. It’s financed by
Apple Studios and UCP with Theresa Kang-Lowe executive producing through Blue Marble Pictures. Hugh, Heyman, Hiddleston himself will also act as the executive producers alongside Caroline Garity of Blue Marble Pictures, who is behind ‘Pachinko’.
The story follows with Henry Worsley, a British explorer and British Army officer who was part of the successful 2009 expedition that retraced Ernest Shackleton’s footsteps in the Antarctic. A former soldier and the doting father, his obsession with spectacular ventures takes him on an marvelous journey as he sets off to cross Antarctica on foot. Worsley died in 2016 in the attempt to finish off his first solo unaided crossing of the Antarctic.
The official synopsis describes it as a “spellbinding story of courage, love, family and the extremes of human capacity.”
The series will premiere globally on Apple TV+, but currently no announcement date has been announced.
This marks the second Apple series for Hiddleston, who is widely acclaimed as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after ‘The Essex Serpent’, a series that will hit the screens on May 13, 2022 on Apple TV+. He’s with WME, JSSK and Hamilton Hodell in the U.K.