Meryl Streep, Kit Harington and Matthew Rhys Among Stars in Apple’s Climate Change Anthology | THR News - video Dailymotion

'Extrapolations,' from Scott Z. Burns, will also feature Sienna Miller, Tahar Rahim and Gemma Chan among others.

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00:00Meryl Streep, Kit Harington, and Matthew Rhys are set to head the ensemble of a new Apple TV Plus anthology series.

00:07The eight-episode Apple TV Plus drama titled Extrapolations comes from writer Scott Z. Burns of Contagion and The Report,

00:14as well as Media Res, the production company behind The Morning Show.

00:18The star-studded cast also includes Sienna Miller, Jemma Chan, Tahar Rahim, David Diggs, David Schwimmer, and Adarsh Gaurav,

00:25with additional actors to be announced.

00:27The Apple series centers around climate change and is currently in production.

00:32It will tell interconnected stories about how the upcoming changes to the planet will affect love, faith, work, and family.

00:38Burns said,

00:39The only thing we know for sure about the future is that we are all going there together,

00:42and we're taking with us our hopes, our fears, our appetites, our creativity, our capacity for love, and our predilection to cause pain.

00:50These are the same tools that storytellers have been using since the beginning of time.

00:54Our show is just using them to keep time from running out.

00:56As for the cast's roles, Miller will play a marine biologist,

00:59Harrington plays the CEO of an industrial giant,

01:02Rahim plays a man struggling with memory loss,

01:05Reese will play a real estate developer,

01:06Diggs plays a rabbi in South Florida,

01:08Chan plays a single mother and microfinance banker,

01:11Schwimmer plays the father of a teenage daughter,

01:13and Gaurav plays a driver for hire.

01:15Details of Streep's role are being kept under wraps.

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01:21For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.