{"id":450239,"date":"2026-05-28T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450239\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:53:08","slug":"paul-sparks-and-ava-threat-join-the-apple-movie-liminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450239\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Sparks And Ava Threat Join The Apple Movie ‘Liminal’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Paul Sparks<\/a> and Ava Threat<\/a> have joined the cast of the Apple Original Films<\/a> pic Liminal<\/a> starring Vanessa Kirby and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Louis Leterrier is on board to direct.<\/p>\n

\n\tHailing from Apple Studios, the film is a sci-fi action-thriller based on the AWA graphic novel Telepaths by Eisner Award-winner J. Michael Straczynski, Steve Epting and Brian Reber.\u00a0No word yet on the role Sparks and Threat will be playing, nor the plot of the film. It\u2019s based on the AWA graphic novel\u00a0which takes place in a world where a tenth of the population suddenly gains telepathic powers as a result of an electromagnetic disturbance.<\/p>\n

\n\tTom Pelphrey, Franka Potente and\u00a0Tony Award-winner Tracy Letts are also on board.<\/p>\n

\n\tZach Studin will produce for AWA Studios. Kevin Walsh will produce for The Walsh Company via his overall deal with Apple Studios. Ray Angelic will serve as executive producer, along with J. Michael Straczynski, Steve Epting, Brian Reber. The project was written by Justin Rhodes. Co-producers are Patrick McNamara for The Walsh Company, and Juliet Kirby.<\/p>\n

\n\tSparks starred in 3 seasons of the Apple TV series Physical opposite Rose Byrne. Additional series credits include Joe Pickett and Waco, Castlerock, Boardwalk Empire and House of Cards.<\/p>\n

\n\tThreat is best known for her role as Imani in the BET+ feature\u00a0The Day Before Christmas,\u00a0a recurring role in\u00a0Beauty in Black\u00a0and a co-star role in NBC\u2019s\u00a0Grosse Pointe Garden Society.<\/p>\n

\n\tSparks is repped by Circle Management + Production and Gersh and Threat is repped by McLain Entertainment, Formation Talent Agency &\u00a0Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Paul Sparks and Ava Threat have joined the cast of the Apple Original Films pic Liminal starring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[151894,229195,430,156,185567,111,139,69,157186],"class_list":["post-450239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-apple-original-films","tag-ava-threat","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-liminal","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paul-sparks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}