HBO today dropped a first look teaser at the upcoming legal drama series War premiering October 1 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. Created by George Kay (Lupin, Hijack), and starring Dominic West (The Affair, The Wire) and Sienna Miller (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Anatomy of a Scandal), the series is co-produced by New Pictures and Observatory Pictures with new episodes of the eight-episode season debuting weekly on Thursdays.
The cast also includes Phoebe Fox (Task, The Great), James McArdle (Playing Nice, Mare of Easttown), Archie Renaux (Upgraded, Shadow & Bone), Nina Sosanya (Baby Reindeer, Surface), Pip Torrens (Preacher, Poldark), Celia Imrie (The Diplomat, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso, Deep Cover), Emma Laird (Mayor of Kingstown, The Brutalist), Aran Murphy (Klara and the Sun, Lola), Archie Panjabi (Hijack, The Good Wife), Adrian Scarborough (The Chelsea Detective, Gosford Park), Shaheen Jafargholi (Casualty, EastEnders), Akiya Henry (Malice, Macbeth), Honor Swinton Byrne (A Very Royal Scandal, The Souvenir), Miles Jupp (Joy, Belgravia: The Next Chapter), Kartanya Maynard (Deadloch, Heartbreak High), Alexandra Mardell (Smoggie Queens, Coronation Street), Dylan Murphy (Funeral of the Century, Ground Up), Mark Quartley (The Marlow Murder Club, Tell Me Everything), and Steve Furst (Testament, The Serpent Queen).
The synopsis reads, “War is a high-stakes, legal drama following the lives of London’s most powerful lawyers as firms Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne clash over a headline-grabbing legal battle, drawing ambitious young lawyer Jonathan “Johnny” Warren (Archie Renaux) into a ruthless world where ambition is currency, betrayal is strategy, and winning is everything. Season one follows the explosive divorce of British tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and international film star Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), as Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne stop at nothing to secure victory for their clients.”
Watch the teaser for War below.
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