Apple has acquired the rights to a collection that includes two large 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 prime.
Bananas collection 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 collection alongside David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), who may 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+ collection Severance, will develop the collection for the streaming platform.
That is stated to be Ana de Armas’ first English-language episodic undertaking. The Cuban and Spanish actress beforehand portrayed vital roles in Antena 3’s Spanish collection El Internado and Hispania, la leyenda. She has additionally labored in motion pictures 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 together 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 identification dysfunction within the MCU collection Moon Knight.
It’s unclear what the plot of Bananas will probably be, although we do know that Paiz has developed the screenplay and can govt produce. Deadline cited sources to assert that the collection borrowed its title from the time period banana republics, a standard English phrase usually used to confer with unstable and corrupt international locations.