Slow Horses breaks the codes of the traditional spy story

Gary Oldman will play the anti-James Bond in Slow Horses.

Based on the first novel in the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron, the series of the same name bills itself as a darkly humorous spy drama about an incapacitated team of British intelligence officers who serve in the section of MI5 known as Slough House. Jackson Lamb, a brilliant but short-tempered spy chief, finds himself in Slough House because of his mistakes that end their careers as they often stumble through the vicissitudes of the spy world.

Trailer of the film “Slow Horses”

The six-episode television series Slow Horses will air exclusively on the Apple TV+ streaming platform starting April 1. Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Olivia Cooke, Saskia Reeves, Dustin Demri-Burns, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Paul Higgins, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Steve Waddington, Paul Hilton, Antonio Aakil, Peter Judd Jonathan Price.

Slow Horses is produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith (VP, The Damned, Curfew, Comedy Lab). Graham Yost is an executive producer along with Will Smith. Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Cosetta, Ian Canning, Emil Sherman, Gale Mutrux and Douglas Urbansky also serve as executive producers on the series. James Howes directs all six episodes and is an executive producer.