Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, and Kit Harrington Join Climate Change Anthology Series EXTRAPOLATIONS at Apple

Oscar-winner Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada, August Osage County, Sienna Miller (American Sniper, 21 Bridges), and Kit Harrington (Game of Thrones, Eternals) have joined the cast of the climate change anthology series Extrapolations that is headed to Apple TV+. They join previously cast Tahar Rahim, Matthew Rhys, Daveed Diggs, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, and Adarsh Gourav.

The Informant and The Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z. Burns is writing and directing the series, which “tells stories of how the upcoming changes to the planet will affect love, faith, work and family on a personal and human scale. Told over a season of eight interconnected episodes, each story in the scripted series will track the worldwide battle for our mutual survival spanning the 21st century.”

Burns said of the project:

“The only thing we know for sure about the future is that we are all going there together— and we’re taking with us our hopes, our fears, our appetites, our creativity, our capacity for love and our predilection to cause pain. These are the same tools that storytellers have been using since the beginning of time.  Our show is just using them to keep time from running out.”

Deadline reports that Streep’s role has not been disclosed, but Miller will play marine biologist Rebecca Shearer, Harington plays Nicholas Bilton, the CEO of an industrial giant, Rahim plays Ezra Haddad, a man struggling with memory loss, Rhys stars as Junior, a real estate developer, Diggs is Marshall Zucker, a Rabbi in South Florida, Chan plays Natasha Alper, a single mother and micro-finance banker, Schwimmer stars as Harris Goldblatt, a father to a teenage daughter, and Gourav will play Gaurav, a driver for hire.