Including to its already spectacular catalog of collection and specials, MGM+ has picked up a brand new thriller anthology co-created and executive-produced by Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers.
Related in format to American Horror Story or Feud, the present is structured as an anthology, with every season centered on a distinct hostage scenario. This strategy permits every installment to inform a contained story whereas exploring new characters and high-stakes eventualities.
The primary eight-episode chapter adapts the debut season of the scripted podcast of the identical title and can function Jon Hamm reprising his authentic position for the collection.
Right here is all the pieces we all know to date in regards to the MGM+ collection.
When will American Hostage premiere?
The eight-part thriller will debut in Fall 2026.
What’s American Hostage about?
Set within the so-called “Me Decade” of the Seventies, the primary season follows the true story of Fred Heckman (performed by Hamm), an Indianapolis radio reporter and revered journalist who’s thrust into the highlight after a person named Tony Kiritsis calls for to be interviewed on his present.
Kiritsis, indignant over a dispute with a mortgage firm, took a mortgage govt hostage. In the course of the standoff, Kiritsis demanded airtime and particularly requested Heckman.
The official logline of the collection states: “Based mostly on the acclaimed first season of the scripted podcast of the identical title, American Hostage is a psychological thriller set within the 1970’s that tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman, a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who’s thrust into the center of a life-or- loss of life disaster when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis calls for to be interviewed on his well-liked radio information program.”
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Who stars in American Hostage?
Taking part in reverse Hamm is Giovanni Ribisi as Tony Kiritsis, who takes firm govt Dick Corridor hostage after he’s threatened with foreclosures. Rigging a shotgun to fireplace if Corridor moved, Kiritsis calls for airtime and particularly requests reporter Heckman to cowl the story in the course of the tense standoff. Deadline broke the story on September 17.
Mireille Enos will play the position of Barbara, Fred’s spouse, who forges a friendship with the hostage’s spouse as a result of their circumstances.
William Jackson Harper may even be part of the interval thriller, taking up the collection common position of Ben Hairston, Fred’s mentee at WIBC Information, whose journalistic ethics are examined in the course of the hostage disaster. And Kristoffer Polaha will play Dick Corridor.
Who’s behind American Hostage?
Hamm, Ryan, and Myers govt produce together with Connie Tavel, Sharon Hoffman, and Ryan’s MiddKid Productions associate, Marney Hochman. The corporate behind the American Hostage podcast, Shawn Christensen and Gabriel Mason of Legal Content material, additionally function govt producers.
Is there a trailer?
No. Not but, however please examine again.
American Hostage, Fall 2026, MGM+