Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer and Kit Harrington are among the cast of Extrapolations, a new AppleTV+ drama series that will focus on climate change and climate action issues.
The series comes was created by writer, director, and producer Scott Z. Burns, who scripted 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum, Contagion, and Streep's Netflix film The Laundromat.
Extrapolations is currently in production and according to Apple it will tell eight interconnected stories about how the earth's changing climate will affect "love, faith, work, and family on a personal and human scale".
The series was created by writer, director, and producer Scott Z. Burns, who scripted 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum, Contagion, and Streep's Netflix film The Laundromat.
Streep’s role has yet to be announced, but Harington will play industrial CEO Nicholas Bilton and Schwimmer plays Harris Goldblatt, the father of a teenage girl.
Also among the cast are Matthew Rhys, who will play a real estate developer, Sienna Miller as a marine biologist, Gemma Chan as a banker and single mother, Tahar Rahim as a man struggling with memory loss, Daveed Diggs as a Rabbi in south Florida, and Adarsh Gourav as a chauffeur.
Burns said in a statement: "The only thing we know for sure about the future is that we are all going there together - and we’re taking with us our hopes, our fears, our appetites, our creativity, our capacity for love and our predilection to cause pain.
"These are the same tools that storytellers have been using since the beginning of time. Our show is just using them to keep time from running out."
