Five Days at Memorial has released its first trailer, showing off the Apple TV+ series with Vera Farmiga, based on the events of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center and Dr. Anna Pou, who Farmiga plays. The series hits the platform on August 12th.
The upcoming drama will be based on the book of the same name by Pulitzer-winning journalist Sheri Fink. The series will be executive produced and written by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel). They will direct some episodes with Wendey Stanzler (Rebel).
Before reaching Ridley and Cuse, it was up to be adapted into a movie by Lady Bird, The Social Network, and No Country for Old Men producer Scott Rudin. Rights then went to Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) for American Crime Story: Katrina, but it did not pan out. Now, after hopping from owner to owner, it will finally have a home.
Vera Farmiga in Apple TV+ Limited Series on Hurricane Katrina
The series will focus on both the hurricane’s impact on the hospital and Dr. Pou. In the Apple series, Vera Farmiga plays the doctor who lost her license after being arrested for the second-degree murder of some of her patients during this time. She was never indicted.
Other stars in the series include Robert Pine (CHiPs), Cherry Jones (Succession), Julie Anne Emery (Better Call Saul), Cornelius Smith Jr. (Scandal), Adepero Oduye (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Molly Hager (Happyish), Michael Gaston (The Leftovers), and W. Earl Brown (Deadwood).
The first three episodes of the Vera Farmiga Apple series will be released by August 12th. Then it will go once a week until its finale on September 16th. You can read the official synopsis below:
“Based on actual events and adapted from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a local hospital. When the floodwaters rose, power failed and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make decisions that would follow them for years to come.”
