See Ray Liotta in his final TV project as Taron Egerton's dad in Black Bird trailer
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Gone, but never forgotten.
Apple TV+ has released the trailer for its gritty psychological thriller Black Bird, giving audiences their first look at the late Ray Liotta in his final TV role. The Goodfellas and Many Saints of Newark star, who died last month at 67, portrays a decorated policeman whose incarcerated son, played by Taron Egerton, is compelled to enter a maximum-security prison to try to elicit a confession from a suspected serial killer.
As the trailer opens, Liotta's Big Jim Keene can be heard telling his son that he never wanted this life for him. "I wanted a totally different life," he says. "A steady paycheck, kids, a family."
"Dad, tell me there's a way out of this?" Egerton's character asks. "Not a quick one," is the response he gets.
The six-episode limited series is based on the true-crime memoir In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption, by James Keene and Hillel Levin.
The trailer further introduces viewers to Jimmy Keene (Egerton), a former high school football hero who has been sentenced to 10 years in a minimum-security prison but is given a chance to reduce his time behind bars. That will require him to befriend and get a confession out of Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall's appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar?
"In my dreams, I kill women, but they're just dreams," Hall says ominously in the trailer.
Courtesy of Apple Ray Liotta in 'Black Bird'
Black Bird, which also stars Sepideh Moafi and Greg Kinnear, is developed, written, and executive-produced by best-selling author Dennis Lehane. The first two episodes will premiere on Friday, July 8, on Apple TV+, followed by a new episode each week. Watch the new trailer above.
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