Jude Law and Andrew Garfield to Play Vegas Legends Siegfried and Roy

Preview:

• Andrew Garfield and Jude Law are set to play performers Siegfried & Roy.
• The Apple TV+ limited series ‘Wild Things’ will chart the duo’s career.
• John Hoffman is involved behind the scenes.

Andrew Garfield have signed up to executive produce and star in ‘Wild Things.’

No, don’t do a double-take: this does not mean they’ll be getting steamy in a remake of the pulpy Denise Richards as sultry students.

Instead, the actors are attached to play Vegas legends Siegfried and Roy, the flamboyant famous performers known for big-scale magic tricks and the inclusion of animals in their shows –– hence the name of the new series, ‘Wild Things.’

Related Article: Jude Law Talks ‘Skeleton Crew’ and ing the ‘Star Wars’ Universe

Who are Siegfried and Roy?

Not to sound morbid, but it’s more apt to say who were Siegfried and Roy.

Roy Horn (born Uwe Ludwig Horn, who ed in 2020) were German-American entertainers who performed an animal-based magic show together as Siegfried & Roy.

They met in 1959 while both were working on a cruise ship and then began to perform together on ships and in European clubs and theaters.

In 1967, they were invited to begin performing in Las Vegas. Starting in 1990, they headlined a show at hotel and casino The Mirage. Romantic partners as well as professional, they become best known for their flamboyant, Liberace-style costumes and use of white lions and tigers in their acts; Siegfried was the magician, Roy the animal trainer.

By 1999, the show had grossed $500 million and they were the highest-paid entertainers in Las Vegas. After 5,750 performances, their career ended in 2003 when Horn was critically injured by a tiger during a performance.

Horn died from COVID-19 and Fischbacher ed from complications pancreatic cancer.

What’s the story of ‘Wild Things’?

Written, showrun and executive produced by Only Murders in the Building’), the eight-episode, hour-long series tells the wild ride relationship tale of two of the greatest showman-magicians in history who, along with their white tigers, are tasked with turning Sin City into a family-friendly destination.

The duo push the concept of illusion versus reality to the extreme, personally and professionally, until tragedy reframes and opens a mystery surrounding their last fateful Las Vegas show.

Law will star as Siegfried and Garfield will star as Roy, and the series is set to go into production this fall.

Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment.

This new show is drawn from Apple Original Podcast ‘Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy,’ which premiered in 2022, and was the first, compelling in-depth podcast series about the most famous, controversial magicians in history, who were widely misunderstood, frequently satirized and feverishly criticized.

The podcast goes behind the velvet curtain to examine the pop culture icons, lionized by a global fan base for more than 40 years, to deconstruct the illusions they created, the empire they constructed, and what really happened on the night that a tiger attack ended their reign.

Documentary filmmaker Steven Leckart, who wrote, narrated, and executive produced the podcast, will also produce the series alongside Tony Leondis, Kathy Ciric and Will Malnati, who conceived the original podcast.

Where else can we see Jude Law?

Law was most recently seen as the scheming Jod Na Nawood in ‘Skeleton Crew.’

On the big screen, his last couple of acting gigs included ‘The Order,’ which saw him as a grizzled FBI agent looking to take down white supremacists who have begun robbing banks.

, he has Ron Howard’s thriller ‘Eden,’ which follows a group of people fueled by a profound desire for change. In order to turn their back to society they leave everything behind and set their futures on the harsh landscape of the Galapagos.

‘Eden’ will be in theaters on August 22nd.

He’s also worked on Netflix but has yet to land a date.

Likewise movie ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin,’ focusing on a young Russian filmmaker who becomes an unlikely advisor to Vladimir Putin as he rises to power in post-Soviet Russia, navigating the new era's complexities and chaos. Law plays Putin.

What else is Andrew Garfield up to?

Garfield was last seen opposite ‘We Live in Time.’

Next up for the actor in of release is Julia Roberts as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

The movie is due in theaters on October 17th.

In addition to that, Garfield has worked on a new movie adaptation of Edith Blyton’s children’s classic ‘The Magic Faraway Tree,’ about a modern family who relocate to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents.

That one is awaiting a release date.

When will ‘Wild Things’ land on Apple TV+?

Apple has yet to specify when the new limited series will land on its streaming service.

List of Andrew Garfield Movies and TV Shows:

• 'Never Let Me Go' (2010)
• 'The Social Network' (2010)
• 'The Amazing Spider-Man' (2012)
• 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' (2014)
• '99 Homes' (2015)
• 'Hacksaw Ridge' (2016)
• 'Silence' (2017)
• 'Under the Silver Lake' (2019)
• 'tick, tick... BOOM!' (2021)
• 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' (2021)
• 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' (2021)
• 'Under the Banner of Heaven' (2022)
• 'We Live in Time' (2024)

Buy Jude Law Movies on Amazon