Bill Nighy (Living, About Time) will co-star with Caitríona Balfe (Outlander, Belfast) in Alfonso Cuarón's new horror-thriller Apple TV series Ascension. Deadline reported that Natalie Erika James and Christian White are co-showrunners of the project, which was inspired by Adam Nevill's novel Last Days and is written by James, White, Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón, with James serving as lead director. Apple Studios is the studio.
Ascension is a "psychological horror thriller following Rose (Balfe), a relentless documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother who is brilliant at uncovering others' truths but struggling to resolve her own. When Rose begins a project on a mysterious 20th-century cult known as the Church of Ascension, she finds unexpected refuge in its teachings--until she discovers something far more insidious beneath," Deadline wrote. Nighy will play Zac, a documentarian who hires Rose to work with him on a new project.