Apple TV+ Shares a First Look at Victor LaValle AdaptationThe Changeling

There ’s still time to readVictor LaValle ’s novel The Changeling beforeits adaptation get on Apple TV+in September — and even if you ’ve already read it , these first - look images at starsLaKeith Stanfieldand Clark Backo will make you want to pick it up again . They , and the adjustment , look absolutely spot - on .

The official logline from Apple TV+ only let on this : “ found on the acclaimed well - sell book of the same name by Victor LaValle , The Changeling is a fairy tale for grown - ups . A repulsion story , a parenthood fable , and a perilous odyssey through a New York City you did n’t know existed . ” If you have n’t had the pleasure of LaValle ’s page - Frederick Jackson Turner — honorable luck prove it put it down once you start up study it — that ’s really all you need to know about the world it explores . It ’s set in a New York that feel familiar , in both wonderful and awful way , and slowly expands its reality to comprehend surrealistic horrors lurking just beyond the boundaries of what most of the city ’s population believes in , or even have notice of .

In the new bring out image , you’re able to see used and uncommon book dealer Apollo ( Stanfield ) at body of work , as well as court Emmy ( Clark Back0 ) , a librarian who becomes his married woman — and the female parent of his child , whose parentage sets the game ’s fantastic elements in motion . ( The title The Changeling proffer hints about that part of it . ) Then , the poster graphics gives a metaphorical tease of just how upside - down Apollo ’s world becomes .

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The Changeling runs for eight episodes ; you’re able to enamour the first three on September 8 , with a weekly rollout after that until the conclusion on October 13 . Stanfield ( Atlanta , Judas and the Black Messiah , no-good to Bother You , Get Out ) star alongside Backo ( Letterkenny ) . The residue of the cast includes Adina Porter ( True Blood ) , Samuel T. Herring , Alexis Louder , Jared Abrahamson , and Malcolm Barrett . The serial is write and adapted by showrunner / executive manufacturer Kelly Marcel ( Cruella , Venom , Venom : Let There Be butchery ) ; The Changeling ’s tilt of executive producers also includes Stanfield , LaValle , and director Melina Matsoukas ( Queen & Slim ) , among others .

Needless to say , The Changeling is high on our leaning of must - watch shows for the autumn , so we ’ll thirstily be await more details on this one .

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