The Scorching Zone will return later this yr!
Nationwide Geographic has confirmed Thanksgiving weekend because the airdate for its restricted sequence, The Scorching Zone: Anthrax, starring Daniel Dae Kim and Tony Goldwyn.
The three-night occasion will premiere Sunday, November 28.
The Scorching Zone Season 1 targeted on the Ebola outbreak and have become the community’s most-watched scripted sequence ever.
“With the world nonetheless reeling after the assaults on 9/11, America faces a second wave—the anthrax letters,” reads the official logline.
“Concentrating on journalists and politicians, mail with anthrax powder kills 5 folks and causes panic throughout america.”
The sequence follows FBI Particular Agent Matthew Ryker (Kim) as he tracks down the killer, discovering himself ensnared in an unstable internet of psychological warfare.
Bruce Ivins (Goldwyn) is the good microbiologist who turns into embroiled within the hunt.
The six-hour scientific thriller follows final yr’s The Scorching Zone, which was Nationwide Geographic’s most-watched scripted sequence of all time.
For second chapter, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson function govt producers and showrunners.
Scott Free Manufacturing’s Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker are govt producers, with Jordan Sheehan additionally serving as govt producer. Lynda Obst is an govt producer.
Richard Preston is a co-executive producer on the sequence. The sequence is produced by 20th Tv and Scott Free Productions.
“Tony and Daniel are each splendidly versatile and dimensional actors who will deliver complexity and depth to those characters,” mentioned Carolyn Bernstein, govt vice chairman of scripted and documentary movies, Nationwide Geographic when the sequence was ordered.
“We will’t wait for his or her star turns on this startling, genuine and well timed scientific thriller.”
Goldwyn joins the sequence as Bruce Ivins, a superb microbiologist who turns into embroiled within the hunt to search out the 2001 anthrax killer.
Whereas he works carefully with the FBI to uncover who’s behind the lethal anthrax letters, his rising instability and paranoia give method to even deeper and unnerving discoveries.
Kim will painting Matthew Ryker, an FBI agent with a specialty in microbiology, who, simply three weeks after the 9/11 assaults, dangers his profession to persuade his superiors of the unthinkable, that america is underneath assault once more.
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