Apple TV Plus teases its WeWork collection with Jared Leto

A brand new trailer offers us a glimpse of Apple TV Plus’ WeCrashed, an upcoming miniseries concerning the real-life buildup and dramatic downfall of WeWork, the coworking area with the weirdly bombastic public submitting that laid off hundreds of workers whereas later giving its brash CEO an enormous golden parachute. The script virtually writes itself.

Jared Leto stars as WeWork’s former eccentric CEO, Adam Neumann, whereas Anne Hathaway takes on the function of his spouse, Rebekah Neumann, who served as the corporate’s chief model and affect officer and was former CEO of WeGrow. The trailer opens with Leto reimagining a run-down constructing as a vibrant workplace area — after which making that imaginative and prescient a actuality. Leto and Hathaway are then seen main a “WeWork” chant in entrance of a crowd, emphasizing the virtually hypnotic power of the corporate and its leaders. The firm managed to safe a $47 billion valuation earlier than in the end plummeting to only $9 billion as the corporate went public.

The collection is predicated on the Wondery podcast WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork and is ready to debut on Apple TV Plus on March 18th, with new episodes airing each Friday till April twenty second. Last yr, Hulu created a documentary that adopted the WeWork rollercoaster trip, referred to as WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn.

Also coming to Apple TV Plus is Severance, a collection that depicts the final word steadiness between work and residential. Adam Scott performs Mark Scout, a supervisor at Lumon Industries, who undergoes a process referred to as “severance.” The process splits Scout’s (and his co-workers’) private and work-related recollections — when he’s on the workplace, he has no reminiscence of his dwelling life and vice versa.

The trailer reveals what appears to be Scout’s verbal acknowledgment of the process’s dangers. It additionally previews the robotic interactions that happen between him and colleagues, in addition to hints at a darker thriller brewing contained in the office. Severance premieres on February 18th and is produced by Ben Stiller.