Apple TV+ has postponed the release of “The Savant,” its upcoming thriller series starring Jessica Chastain as an investigator working to prevent domestic extremism. The move comes amid the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“After careful consideration, we have made the decision to postpone ‘The Savant,’” reads a statement from Apple. “We appreciate your understanding and look forward to releasing the series at a future date.”
The official logline for the series says that it “follows an undercover investigator known as ‘The Savant’ as she infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop domestic extremists before they act.” In it, Chastain plays Jodi Goodwin, a military veteran who works at the Anti-Hate Alliance. There, she secretly visits 4Chan-like message boards and tries to draw out possible terrorists. Early in the series, while posing as a white nationalist, she stumbles upon the planning of a large-scale domestic attack, and attempts to infiltrate the group to thwart it.
“The Savant” is based on a 2019 Cosmopolitan story by Andrea Stanley. Titled “Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?,” the article discusses the work of an investigator who, indeed, is known in real life as “The Savant” or simply as “K,” whose job is to “to stop potential mass murderers from carrying out their plots” and whose “focus [had] been pulled toward the alt-right, a younger, more misogynistic version of the white supremacist movement that’s converting a new generation on message boards and social media.”
Kirk, a well-known and controversial conservative activist and media personality, was shot and killed on Sept. 10 during an event at a college campus in Utah.
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