When Ray Liotta died final month within the Dominican Republic, the celebrated actor left behind a number of performances that might be launched posthumously. One of many first of these roles is within the Apple TV+ drama, Black Fowl, which premieres on the streaming service on July 8. A just-released trailer for the six-episode restricted collection spotlights the Goodfellas star’s supporting flip as the daddy of real-life highschool soccer star-turned-convict, Jimmy Keene, performed by Taron Egerton. (Watch the trailer above.)
Tailored by celebrated crime novelist, Dennis Lehane, from Keene’s personal 2010 memoir, In With the Satan, Black Fowl follows Jimmy as he wrestles with the dramatic flip his life has taken after he is sentenced to a jail stint for promoting medication. “I by no means wished this for you,” his doting father, “Large Jim” (Liotta), tells him throughout a go to. “I wished a very totally different life: a gentle paycheck, youngsters, a household.”
“Dad, inform me there is a means out of this,” Keene responds, with apparent remorse. “Not a fast one,” his father replies with a sigh.
It seems that there could also be a means out for Jimmy … however he is not going to love it. The FBI approaches him with a suggestion to be transferred to a maximum-security jail for the criminally insane with the intention of changing into buddies with Larry Corridor (Paul Walter Hauser) — who they believe of killing practically twenty ladies.
“You need me to test into hell and befriend the demon?” he asks the brokers incredulously. “Not for all the cash on the planet.” But it surely seems the feds have one thing higher than cash in thoughts as a reward. “How about freedom?”
Whereas Black Fowl is not Liotta’s last efficiency, it does mark his final look in a TV collection. The actor had additionally accomplished filming the thriller, Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks, and Charlie Day’s directorial debut, previously titled El Tonto. Liotta was in the midst of capturing one other film, Harmful Waters, when he died in his sleep at age 67.
Black Fowl premieres July 8 on Apple TV+
