David Bridges
Apple TV+ has launched a trailer for Sunny, its new “ten-episode darkly comedic thriller collection” pairing star Rashida Jones with a speaking robotic.
Primarily based on the novel The Darkish Handbook by Colin O’Sullivan, the collection— hailing from showrunner Katie Robbins, government producer/director Lucy Tcherniak and Rashida Jones, herself — follows Suzie, “an American girl residing in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious airplane crash. As ‘comfort’ she’s given Sunny, considered one of a brand new class of home robots made by her husband’s electronics firm. Although at first Suzie resents Sunny’s makes an attempt to fill the void in her life, progressively they develop an sudden friendship, as collectively they uncover the darkish reality of what actually occurred to Suzie’s household, changing into dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie by no means knew existed.”
The collection’ co-stars Japanese actor/mannequin Hidetoshi Nishijima as Suzie’s presumedly useless husband, actor and tv persona YOU because the villainous industrialist Hime, Judy Ongg as Suzie’s mom in-law, Jun Kunimura because the roboticist, Yuki Tanaka, and Joanna Sotumura because the voice of Sunny the robotic.
Notably, Sunny marks the second collaboration between Apple, A24 and Rashida Jones following Sofia Coppola’s 2020 movie, On the Rocks—one other story a couple of girl suspicious of her husband’s whereabouts. In truth, the collection’ seems to be the newest in a protracted string of restricted collection’ tackling comparable subject material additionally at Apple TV+, together with The Final Factor He Informed Me with Jennifer Garner, Monarch: The Legacy of Monsters with Kurt Russell and Darkish Matter with Joel Edgerton suspicious of himself. This does look like the primary so as to add a wise-cracking robotic to the combo, although, including a salacious tint to the similar-but-very-different 1987 kids’s movie, Too A lot.
Sunny premieres July 10, 2024 on Apple TV+.
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