Apple Orders Limited Series From J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Garner To Star

By: Dec. 13, 2018
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Apple Orders Limited Series From J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Garner To Star

According to Variety, Apple has ordered a new series from J.J. Abrams straight to series. The new show reunited Abrams with Jennifer Garner, who is set to star. The two previously worked together on the hit series ALIAS. The new show is based on the 2017 memoir "My GLORY Was I Had Such Friends" by Amy Silverstein. The story follows a woman waiting for a second heart transplant. Read more about the news from Variety here!

Garner is best known for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller Alias, which aired from 2001 to 2006. For her work on the series, she won a Golden Globe Awardand a SAG Award, and received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While working on Alias, Garner gained a cameo role in Catch Me if You Can (2002), followed by a praised leading performance in the romantic comedy film 13 Going on 30 (2004). Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead film roles, including the superhero films DAREDEVIL (2003) and Elektra (2005), the comedy-drama Juno (2007), and the fantasy comedy The Invention of Lying (2009). In the 2010s, she appeared in the romantic-comedy Valentine's Day (2010), the fantasy comedy-drama The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), the biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), the comedy film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), the drama film Miracles from Heaven (2016), and the romantic comedy-drama film Love, Simon (2018).

J.J. Abrams is known for his work as a film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and composer.



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