Sam Esmail’s Metropolis (Apple TV+) series is canceled
Series Metropolis by Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr Robot, will not finally see the light of day on Apple TV +, since it has been canceled. It was first announced in March 2022. Filming was expected to create 4,000 jobs in Australia.
According Deadline, the series, which was in preparation in Australia, has definitely stopped. The team has just been informed that the ambitious project will not go ahead with filming, which was supposed to begin during the summer.
“The high costs and the uncertainty linked to the ongoing strike led to this difficult decision”said a manager of Universal Content Productions (UCP), which handled the series Metropolis for Apple TV+. The current strike mentioned concerns that of screenwriters in the United States.
Metropolis had been uncertain for seven weeks now. As draft scripts for the full-scale, special-effects series were not completed before the start of the writers’ strike on May 2, setting budgets and other key pre-production elements were delayed. . On the casting side, we were to find Briana Middleton in the main role and Lindy Booth for an important role.
The series was to be a new drama inspired by Fritz Lang’s eminent science fiction work of the same name, which premiered in 1927. While the city’s wealthy elite live lavish lives of comfort and affluence in penthouses and pleasure gardens, dozens of laborers labor on dangerous machines in the bowels of the city to keep everything running. Freder Fredersen, the son of the most powerful man in Metropolis, has a realization after meeting a young factory worker named Maria and witnessing several workers die in an industrial accident.
