Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain to Star In and Produce Apple TV+ Limited Series THE OFF WEEKS
Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain (George & Tammy, The Savant) and Emmy winner Ben Stiller (Meet the Parents, Severance) have signed on to star in the upcoming Apple TV+ eight-episode limited series The Off Weeks. Michael Showalter (The Idea of You, The Dropout) will direct and executive produce alongside Alissa Nutting (Made For Love), who will also serve as showrunner.
The project follows writing professor Gus Adler, whose divorce has thrown his life into chaos. He struggles to hold things together during “on weeks” when he has custody of his kids.
But in his “off weeks,” he’s falling dangerously in love with Stella West, a mysterious woman whose arrival puts Gus’ on-week duties and off-weeks ambitions on a fatal collision course.
Stiller and Chastain have previously collaborated on the animated film Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, lending their voices to Alex, a lion, and Gia, a jaguar, respectively. Stiller and Showalter worked together on the Apple TV+ mini-series The Shrink Next Door.
via: Deadline