WeCrashed: Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto board Apple TV+ series

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto have signed on to star in Apple's WeCrashed, a scripted WeWork project, which has been ordered to series. Based on the Wondrey podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork”, the adaptation has Crazy Stupid Love and This Is Us directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa in charge of directing the series. Meanwhile, WeCrashed creators Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello will also write the series as well as executive produce alongside a series of contributors, including Hathaway, Leto, Charlie Gogolak. Eisenberg, Crevello, and Natalie Sandy. Emma Ludbrook will executive produce alongside Leto via their Paradox studio.

Hosted by David Brown, the podcast series told the tale of WeWork and its founders. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, it was ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann thought it was going to change the world. Adam had a prophet-like vision for WeWork that he sold to some of the world’s savviest investors — but did his vision ever match the company’s reality? (via Deadline) To clarify, WeWork is an American commercial real estate company that specializes in shared workspaces for technology startups.

Jared Leto has a new film out today titled The Little Things, in which he stars alongside Denzel Washington and Rami Malek. In the John Lee Hancock-directed thriller, two cops go on the hunt for a serial killer. Hathaway can be found starring alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor in Doug Liman's pandemic-inspired heist movie Locked Down. In the film, released on January 14, a couple attempts a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at a department store.

Seeing as greed is a hot topic in 2021 it should be interesting to see how the fall of WeWork is portrayed in the new series. One thing's for sure, the concept certainly has some major star power at its back, not they just need to make it shine.