Giancarlo Esposito to led Netflix heist series Jigsaw

Netflix has ordered a model new heist drama titled Jigsaw with Giancarlo Espositio (The Mandalorian) set to steer the sequence from producer Ridley Scott.

Jigsaw has been created by Eric Garcia, who will act as showrunner, basing the story loosely on an event in New York all through Hurricane Sandy the place billions of {{dollars}} went missing.

Moreover starring inside the sequence might be Paz Vega (The OA), Rufus Sewell (The Man in Extreme Citadel), Tati Gabrielle ( Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Peter Mark Kendall (The Folks), Rosaline Elbay (Ramy), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) and Niousha Noor (The Night). Directing the first two episodes is Jose Padilha (Elite Squad).

Jigsaw will take a non-linear technique to the story that spans 25 years. The eight-episode sequence will see events all by means of 24 years sooner than the heist and one 12 months after. The official synopsis reads:

Spanning 24 years, Jigsaw services throughout the biggest heist ever tried, and the vengeance, scheming, loyalties, and betrayals that embody it. It’s loosely impressed by the real-life story the place seventy billion {{dollars}} in bonds went missing in downtown Manhattan all through Hurricane Sandy.

Moreover launched had been character descriptions for the strong. Jigsaw will operate Esposito as Leo Pop. “A pure chief, Leo is whip-smart, intense and pushed, with an engineer’s ideas and a meticulous eye for aspect. He turned a thief at a youthful age — and though he had a possibility to get out, he couldn’t keep away from the felony life and his relapse value him his family and his freedom.”

Vega might be Ava Mercer, an lawyer who “is equally at dwelling on a gun fluctuate or gallery current as she is inside the courtroom. Although she performs points fast and free, deep down she’s a passionate soul who will do one thing to protect the few of us close to her.”

Sewell is Roger Salas, “a former thief who has reinvented himself as a first-rate tier security expert, Roger is a salesman with an uncanny talent to regulate of us to his ends. Loyal, to some extent, nonetheless his private ambitions and wishes will win out every time.”

Gabrielle will portray Hannah Kim. “Intelligent, daring, and adaptable, Hannah is a woman who wears many hats – and is pushed by extra of money. As a chameleon who flows between the world of high-stakes finance and low-lying crime, she should use the whole thing in her bag of strategies to find a strategy up and out.”

Kendall is Stan Loomis, “a small-time smuggler with a big-time passion for all occasions’s epicurean pleasures, Stan’s obtained a mouth that not at all stops working and the middle of a hopeless romantic. Loyal to a fault, he’s eager to hazard all of it for the merchandise of his want — even when it means giving up the cozy life he’s constructed for himself.”

Elbay is Judy Goodwin, “the crew’s demolitions specialist, Judy is headstrong and neutral — an eccentric spitfire with a sarcastic edge who’s clever and gifted ample to stay a step ahead of her errors.”

Courtney is Bob Goodwin, “a chest-puffing alpha male with a knack for safecracking and pushing of us’s buttons, Bob is attractive ample to be a danger and good ample to be dangerous to anyone who will get in his strategy when he’s on the hunt.”

Noor is Nazan Abassi. “Pushed, damaged and tenacious to a fault, FBI Agent Nazan Abassi is the raging fire that threatens to burn our crew of thieves down – as long as these flames don’t devour her first.”

Jigsaw comes from Scott Free Productions with Scott, David Zucker and Jordan Sheehan producing alongside Russell Constructive and Automatik Leisure’s Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Justin Levy.

Esposito is in the meanwhile filming the last word season of Larger Title Saul, the Breaking Unhealthy prequel the place he has reprised the operate of drug kingpin Gustavo Fring.

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