{"id":947330,"date":"2026-10-26T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947330\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:42:11","slug":"bill-nighy-joins-alfonso-cuarons-apple-tv-series-ascension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947330\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nighy Joins Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n&#8217;s Apple TV Series &#8216;Ascension&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bill-nighy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bill-nighy\" data-tag=\"bill-nighy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Nighy<\/a> (Living, About Time) will star opposite Caitr\u00edona Balfe in Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s new horror-thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple-tv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple-tv\" data-tag=\"apple-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a> series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ascension\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ascension\" data-tag=\"ascension\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ascension<\/a>, co-showrun by Natalie Erika James and Christian White.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInspired by the novel Last Days by Adam Nevill, Ascension is a one-hour psychological horror thriller following Rose (Balfe), a relentless documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother who is brilliant at uncovering others\u2019 truths but struggling to resolve her own. When Rose begins a project on a mysterious 20th-century cult known as the Church of Ascension, she finds unexpected refuge in its teachings \u2014 until she discovers something far more insidious beneath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series explores evil and innocence at the highest level, while asking how far we\u2019ll go \u2014 and what we\u2019ll sacrifice \u2014 to protect the ones we love, even when the greatest threat to them may be ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a series regular role, Nighy will play Zac, a documentarian who hires Rose to work with him on a new project, sources say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tApple Studios will serve as the studio, and Esperanto Filmoj\u2019s Gabriela Rodriguez and Richard Schwartz will executive produce alongside Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n and Carlos Cuar\u00f3n. Steve Golin, David Levine and Zack Hayden executive produce for Anonymous Content. James and White also serve as executive producers. The series is written by James, White, Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n and Carlos Cuar\u00f3n, with James serving as lead director. Anonymous Content also produces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNighy is a multi-award-winning actor of both the stage and screen who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor (Living) and has received a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor (Love Actually), among many other accolades. Most recently, he starred in Morgan Matthews\u2019 500 Miles, Jason Statham\u2019s Shelter, Prime Video\u2019s Lazarus, and Netflix\u2019s Joy. Nighy was most recently seen starring in the six-part BBC series California Avenue, and Prime Video\u2019s Ride or Die. He is repped by Independent Talent in the U.K. and UTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Nighy (Living, About Time) will star opposite Caitr\u00edona Balfe in Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s new horror-thriller Apple TV series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15915,271199,182064,49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-947330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-ascension","tag-bill-nighy","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}