Andrew Garfield Teams With Deadpool 2 Director For Surprising TV Show
On the heels of making his major TV debut, Andrew Garfield is teaming with Deadpool 2 director David Leitch for the TV show Hot Air. The six-part limited series is based on Martyn Gregory's «Dirty Tricks» novel, which chronicled Richard Branson's launching of Virgin Atlantic and and British Airways' campaign to try and regain their dominance over the United Kingdom flight market. British Airways memorably tried to impersonate Virgin employees to gain insider information on their competition, as well as falsify negative media stories, all of which culminated in a lawsuit that ended with British Airways publicly apologizing and settling Virgin's legal costs plus damages.
With Virgin soaring to successful heights and making Branson a billionaire, the company's founder has seen his popularity grow outside of the aerospace community, making cameos in a number of films and shows including Friends and The Simpsons. Unlike these various appearances and parodies of Branson seen in other films and shows, Hot Air will mark the first major adaptation of Branson's life for the screen. With Universal International Studios having acquired the rights to the project following a heated bidding war, it looks like Hot Air is quickly gaining steam.
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Deadline has brought word that Andrew Garfield is teaming with Deadpool 2 director David Leitch for a surprising new TV show. The limited series, entitled Hot Air, will star Garfield as Virgin Airways founder Richard Branson and explore the rise of the company over the past 30 years. Leitch is attached to direct an unknown number of episodes and executive produce via his 87North banner with Universal International Studios is
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