Siegfried & Roy Limited Series, Based On Podcast, In The Works At Apple From John Hoffman & Imagine Television
deadline.comOnly Murders in the Building co-creator John Hoffman is taking on Siegfried and Roy for his next project. Apple TV+ is developing a limited series about the Las Vegas showman-magicians, based on the Apple original podcast Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy.
Written and exec produced by Hoffman, it comes from Imagine Television. As revealed by Deadline last year, the tech giant landed the audio project, which comes from At Will Media, as one of its first original podcasts.
It debuted earlier this year. The hour-long series will be told from various perspectives and will tell the story of the pair who push the concept of illusion versus reality to the extreme — until tragedy reframes and opens up an entirely new mystery surrounding their last fateful Las Vegas show.
Siegfried and Roy were a duo of German-American entertainers, best known for their appearances with white lions and tigers. Siegfried Fischbacher died in January, while Roy Horn, born Uwe Horn, died of Covid-19 last year.
Read more on deadline.com