Tom Hiddleston to star in drama series The White Darkness for Apple

Tom Hiddleston is set to star in The White Darkness, a new limited series in development for Apple TV+.

The series is based on the acclaimed non-fiction book of the same name by New York Times bestselling author David Grann. The White Darkness is inspired by the true-life account of Henry Worsley, a “devoted husband and father, a former soldier, a man of deep honor and sacrifice, but also a man deeply obsessed with adventure, manifesting in an epic journey crossing Antarctica on foot.” Tom Hiddleston will play Worsley in the series, which is being described as a “spellbinding story of courage, love, family and the extremes of human capacity.” The White Darkness will be developed by Soo Hugh (Pachinko), who will also serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside Mark Heyman (Black Swan).

The White Darkness marks the second series that Tom Hiddleston has done for Apple TV as he also stars alongside Claire Danes in The Essex Serpent. The upcoming series follows “newly widowed Cora (Danes) who, having being released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.” The series will debut on Apple TV on May 13, 2022. Hiddleston will also be returning for the second season of Loki. It was announced in February that Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead would be directing Loki season 2 with Eric Martin penning all six episodes of the Disney+ series. Michael Waldron, who wrote and served as showrunner of the first season, will executive produce alongside Tom Hiddleston.