Jude Law and Andrew Garfield are set to headline Wild Things, a new Apple TV+ limited series that brings the lives of legendary illusionists Siegfried & Roy to the screen with a high-profile creative team behind the curtain.
Law will play Siegfried Fischbacher, with Garfield as Roy Horn, in the eight-episode drama adapted from the Apple Original podcast Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy. The series will chart the pair’s rise from outsider entertainers to Las Vegas royalty, while also pulling back the curtain on the myth-making and mystery that surrounded their career—and the performance that changed everything.
On October 3, 2003, during a live show at The Mirage in Las Vegas, Roy was seriously injured by one of the duo’s white tigers, Montecore. The seven-year-old tiger bit Horn on the neck and dragged him offstage in front of a stunned audience. Horn suffered a stroke and partial paralysis as a result, effectively ending Siegfried & Roy’s decades-long run.
Wild Things is being helmed by Only Murders in the Building showrunner John Hoffman, who will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Matt Shakman, best known for directing WandaVision and Game of Thrones, is on board to direct the pilot and executive produce.
Produced by Apple Studios and Imagine Entertainment, the series will also feature Brian Grazer among its executive producers. Production is scheduled to begin this fall.
The project adds to the growing list of TV adaptations based on podcasts, a format that continues to attract major talent and networks. In this case, the original Wild Things podcast examined not only Siegfried & Roy’s public success but also the elaborate world they constructed behind the scenes—culminating in the shocking tiger incident that brought their stage legacy to an abrupt close.
For Apple TV+, Wild Things brings together two Oscar-nominated leads, a proven writer-producer, and a well-established IP. And for viewers, it offers a dramatic take on the eccentric duo whose lives were as theatrical offstage as they were on it.
