Elizabeth Olsen signs on to Apple series, Denis Leary returns with a new sitcom, and Con Air director casts Aaron Eckhart in a new action thriller
Once There Were Wolves (Apple Studios)
Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision, Love & Death) will star in the new series Once There Were Wolves for Apple TV+. Based on a New York Times bestseller of the same name, the show is about Inti Flynn (Olsen) who arrives in Scotland with her twin sister Aggie to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. Inti is driven not only by the ambition to revitalize the dying landscape but also by the desire to help her troubled sister, whose past secrets haunt them both. Garth Davis (who most recently directed the 2023 psychological thriller Foe with Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal) is set to direct, with filming beginning in Scotland on September 30.
Going Dutch (20th Century Fox Television)
Denis Leary (Rescue Me, Animal Kingdom) will return to television for Going Dutch. The single-camera comedy series follows an arrogant U.S. Army Colonel (Leary) who, after an unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands to restore discipline and order to the United States’ most pampered army base with the help of the base’s previous interim leader – his estranged daughter. Denis Leary previously starred in Fox’s The Moodys for two seasons and the 2004-11 FX dramedy Rescue Me. Leary’s son Jack with oversee writing, production and directing duties, with filming set to begin in Los Angeles on August 5.
Raider (Bee Holder Productions)
Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) will direct an action thriller starring Aaron Eckhart (Olympus Has Fallen, Sully). Raider tells the story of a president, sworn in after a landslide victory, who discovers that the White House has been controlled by an elite shadow organization for decades. Refusing to bow to their demands or comply with the head of the Secret Service (Danny Huston), the president works to unravel a series of cryptic messages left by his predecessors hoping they are the key to freeing his family and the country from dark forces. Filming begins on September 30 in Spain.
