Oscar Winner Gary Oldman To Lead Apple's Espionage Drama

Oscar winner and one of the finest actors there have been, Gary Oldman is all set to be a part of Quibi's upcoming espionage drama, Slow Horses. The show is all set to be coming on Apple TV + and this will be another international series that is added to the streamer's roster.

After appearing in several important roles and last seen in Netflix's The Laundromat, this will be Oldman's return to series regular debut. The show is a straight-to-series drama based on Mick Herron's book series of the same name.

Slow Horses follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 — Slough House. Oldman will play Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes.

Will Smith will be penning the script. Graham Yost, who inked an overall deal with Apple TV+ earlier this year, will exec produce alongside Smith, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gail Mutrux and Douglas Urbanski. This is Yost's second drama at Apple TV+ and joins the Band of Brothers sequel Masters of the Air.

Apple's heads of worldwide video Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht and creative director for Europe worldwide video Jay Hunt commissioned the series out of the U.K. Canning and Sherman's London-based See-Saw Films (A Special Relationship) will be the production company on the series.