Matthew Fox is coming out of a 7-year-long hibernation for the Peacock Original mini-series Last Light. This high-profile television event finds Joanne Froggatt joining the Lost alum for an intense thriller based on Alex Scarrow‘s best-selling novel of the same name. If deception, close calls, political intrigue, and death-defying escapes are your kink, prepare for the Last Light trailer, which depicts a journey about overcoming darkness with hope as your only light.
“Petro-chemist Andy Yeats knows how dependent the world is on oil; if something were to happen to the world’s oil supply, it would set off a chain reaction: transportation would grind to a halt, supplies would cease to be delivered, law enforcement would be overwhelmed,” reads the show’s official description. “While on a business trip to the Middle East, Andy realizes that his worst fears are coming true and his family is separated at this crucial moment. His teenage daughter, Laura, is alone at home in London while his wife, Elena, and young son, Sam, are in Paris. Amid this chaos, each family member will sacrifice everything to find one another, despite the distance and the dangers that separate them.”
Included in today’s press release for Peacock’s Last Light trailer is the following statement from Dennie Gordon, the executive producer, and director of the series:
I am so excited to share this work with all of you. This project has been a career high for me; the ability to tell an important story with an international team of actors and artists, with MGM International Television Productions and Peacock, a studio and streamer that has allowed me tremendous creative freedom.
We knew that we were telling a ripped-from-the-headlines story. But we didn’t realize that things would escalate as they have and that we would be living all these events as we were shooting in real-time.
Our thriller is told against the backdrop of a family separated by world events, and I was privileged and thrilled to have Matthew Fox come out of retirement for this special series.
We had a couple of intense obstacles while making this, including shooting during the heights of Covid. But I speak for all of us when I say we each gave 1000% every single day because this was a labor of love that meant so much to all of us.
I was deeply inspired by Alfonso Cuarón’s brilliant film CHILDREN OF MEN, a scenario we can envision just around the corner. And like that film, we hope to give our audience a shred of hope at the end; what is possible if we all come together to affect change???
Thank you for your interest in LAST LIGHT. I hope you will connect with Andy Yeats and his family, and we hope that this series will start the conversations we all might have about our dependency on oil and how we survive climate change.
Dennie Gordon (Jack Ryan) directs all episodes of Last Light. He also executive produces alongside Matthew Fox, William Choi, Sydney Gallonde, Rikke Ennis, Patrick Renault, Diego Piasek, Patrick Massett, and John Zinman (Friday Night Lights, The Blacklist). Rola Bauer and Steven Johnson co-executive produce.
Fox and Froggatt are joined by Alyth Ross, Taylor Fay, Amber Rose Revah, Victor Alli, Tom Wlaschiha, and Hakeem Jomah for the Peacock Original series.
What do you think about Peacock’s Last Light trailer? Are you excited about Matthew Fox coming out of retirement for this dramatic look at a scenario that could one day become our ruin? Last Light premieres on Peacock on September 8, with all five episodes dropping at launch.