Amanda Seyfried And Tom Holland To Star In A New Apple TV+ Series

Apple TV+ today has announced that Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried and Marvel action star Tom Holland will star in "The Crowded Room", the anthology series produced by Apple Studios and New Regency, conceived and written by Academy Award-winner Akiva Goldsman - one of the writers behind 2001 masterpiece "A Beautiful Mind". Notably, Goldsman will also be involved as the executive producer of this project with his Weed Road Productions.

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"The Crowded Room" is a compelling anthology series that will bring to light the incredible stories of those who have struggled and learned to live successfully with mental illness. The show, whose first season will consist of 10 episodes, is a gripping thriller based in part on the life of Goldsman and inspired by Daniel Keyes' award-winning biography, "The Minds of Billy Milligan".
In addition to playing lead character Danny Sullivan, Tom Holland will also be an executive producer of the series alongside Akiva Goldsman and Kornél Mundruczó - director of 2020 drama “Pieces of a Woman”, who will also direct the first season. The series will also be produced by Suzanne Heathcote, Alexandra Milchan of EMJAG Productions and Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer of New Regency.
As mentioned above, besides Tom Holland, the first season of “The Crowded Room” will also feature Amanda Seyfried as Rya, a clinical psychologist grappling with the most difficult case of her career. While she can't help but put her patients first, she tries to keep a balance between her job and her life as a single mother.

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So, “The Crowded Room” has now officially joined the growing roster of Apple Originals - a lineup of original series created and produced by Apple Studios. It already includes "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey", an upcoming limited series based on the same-name best-seller by Walter Mosley and stars Samuel L. Jackson and Dominique Fishback; “Masters of the Air,” an upcoming American war drama miniseries produced by Apple Studios, Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone; “Surface,” a new psychological thriller co-produced by Apple Studios and Hello Sunshine features Gugu Mbatha-Raw; “High Desert”, an upcoming comedy TV series created and written by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, Jennifer Hoppe-House and stars Patricia Arquette, who will also executive produce alongside director Ben Stiller; "City on Fire", a new drama inspired by the same-name acclaimed novel written and produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage; and the recently announced comedy series “Mrs. American Pie" created by Abe Sylvia and features by Kristen Wiig, with Laura Dern serving as executive producer.