Elba is also EPing the series, which comes from 60FortyFilms and Idiotlamp Productions in association with Green Door.
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First-look deals are a lot of kicking tires, he added.
You are trying to figure out what you might do together.
Idris Elba in ‘Hijack’Apple TV+
Who knows what comes next but Im very proud of the fruits of this deal.
[The fight scenes] were choreographed within the space, he added.
All this stuff was part of the design and the action.
Hes more cerebral, quite vulnerable and has a lot going on with his family internally, he added.
It felt like a magnified experience of a hijacking and just felt right, he added.
We didnt want flashbacks or the audience to have any information that the characters on board didnt already have.
TV is full of shows that are mixing timelines and flashbacks so it felt fresh to try somthing linear.
We couldnt swerve around anything we had to take it head on, he added.
Scripts were written to the real-time storyline and couldnt be skipped.
Moments that would normally seem inconsequential were so important and I wanted them to feel like they lasted forever.
