Apple TV+ 2023 releases: Jennifer Garner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joaquin Phoenix
From The Last Thing He Told Me with Jennifer Garner to Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio, here are the upcoming Apple TV+ releases
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jennifer Garner in The Last Thing He Told Me, AppleTV+ (Photo: Apple)
The Last Thing
He Told Me
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 14 April
After Truth Be Told season 3 (Apple TV+), Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video) and Tiny Beautiful Things (Disney+), Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine releases its fourth series of the year: The Last Thing He Told Me. Like much of the company’s output, it’s based on a novel selected for Reese’s Book Club. Its author Laura Dave writes and creates the seven-part limited series for Apple, alongside her husband and Oscar-winning screenwriter Josh Singer (First Man, The Post, Spotlight).
The story centres around Owen Michaels (Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his disappearance from the lives of his wife Hannah (Jennifer Garner) and teenage stepdaughter Bailey (Mare of Easttown’s Angourie Rice). Owen leaves behind a note to Hannah, stressing to ‘protect’ Bailey. When Owen’s tech company starts to crumble under accusations of embezzlement, Hannah bonds with Bailey to untangle this mystery.
Drops of God
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 21 April
Modern streaming allows stories from around the world to enter spaces formerly reserved for the English language. And the surge of audiences flocking to these shows and movies – overcoming the one-inch barrier of subtitles, as Parasite director Bong Joon-ho put it – creates greater innovations in storytelling. Apple TV+ has specialised in series that cross-pollinate between countries, like the French-English thriller Liaison and the family saga drama Pachinko (rated as the best show of 2022 by Culture Whisper).
The latest multilingual example is Drops of God, which flicks between English, French and Japanese for an oddball wine drama based on a famous manga comic. The wealthy French oenologist Alexandre Léger dies in his house in Tokyo, leaving behind his wine empire to his estranged Parisian daughter Camille (Fleur Geffrier). But there’s a catch: to win the fortune, she must compete against Alexandre’s young prodigy Issei Tomine (Tomohisa Yamashita) in an epic wine-tasting duel.
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 12 May
One difficulty of having a disability is the ableist motivation to hide it. It's even harder when you’re one of the biggest screen stars on the planet. Michael J Fox was and is an unforgettable presence in movies and TV, shooting the time-travelling classic Back to the Future and the Emmy-winning sitcom Family Ties at around the same time. At the age of 29, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and went into several years of denial before finally going public in 1998. Since then, he’s started the Michael J Fox Foundation – raising over $1.5 billion for Parkinson’s research.
This new documentary, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), looks at Fox’s story: capturing his glorious heyday in the 1980s and leading into the secrecy and gradual acceptance of his disability.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 20 October
Photo: Apple
Increasingly, established filmmakers are turning to streaming services to deliver the movie they want. For a time, Netflix was the key digital venue: embracing figures like Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story), Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog), Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), and Charlie Kaufman (I’m Thinking of Ending Things). Martin Scorsese is among them with his three-and-a-half-hour gangster epic The Irishman. But like Joel Coen, Sofia Coppola and Todd Haynes, Scorsese is turning to Apple TV+ for his new, four-hour Western Killers of the Flower Moon.
Premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the film is based on the non-fiction book by David Grann and investigates a series of murders in Osage County, Oklahoma, in the 1920s. Killers of the Flower Moon reunites Scorsese not only with his classic leading man Robert De Niro, but also his more recent star Leonardo DiCaprio – performing alongside Jesse Plemons and Brendan Fraser.
Napoleon
Apple TV+ release date: TBC, late 2023
Photo: Apple
Following Martin Scorsese’s example (see above), Gladiator director Ridley Scott also joins the shelves of Apple TV+ with his battle-heavy biopic Napoleon. This is actually one of two adaptations of the French emperor’s life, the other being an HBO series directed by Steven Spielberg from the infamously unfinished Stanley Kubrick film. But Scott’s interpretation is coming first, released in cinemas on Wednesday 22 November before coming to Apple TV+ on a date not yet announced.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Napoleon Bonaparte, starring alongside Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) as the emperor’s great love Josephine. The film traces Napoleon's origins and swift ascension to power via his toxic and passionate relationship with Josephine. All the Money in the World screenwriter David Scarpa tackles the script.
The full Apple TV+ slate:
Wednesday 5 April
Schmigadoon, season 2
Friday 7 April
Boom Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
Friday 14 April
Jane
The Last Thing He Told Me
Friday 21 April
Big Beasts
Drops of God
Ghosted
Friday 28 April
Frog and Toad
Friday 5 May
Harriet the Spy, season 2
Silo
Friday 12 May
City on Fire
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Wednesday 17 May
High Desert
Friday 19 May
Stillwater, season 3
Monday 22 May
Prehistoric Planet, season 2
Wednesday 24 May
Platonic
June, date TBC
Swagger, season 2
Wednesday 12 July
The Afterparty, season 2
Friday 20 October
Killers of the Flower Moon
TBC
Argylle
Lessons in Chemistry
Napoleon
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 14 April
After Truth Be Told season 3 (Apple TV+), Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video) and Tiny Beautiful Things (Disney+), Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine releases its fourth series of the year: The Last Thing He Told Me. Like much of the company’s output, it’s based on a novel selected for Reese’s Book Club. Its author Laura Dave writes and creates the seven-part limited series for Apple, alongside her husband and Oscar-winning screenwriter Josh Singer (First Man, The Post, Spotlight).
The story centres around Owen Michaels (Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his disappearance from the lives of his wife Hannah (Jennifer Garner) and teenage stepdaughter Bailey (Mare of Easttown’s Angourie Rice). Owen leaves behind a note to Hannah, stressing to ‘protect’ Bailey. When Owen’s tech company starts to crumble under accusations of embezzlement, Hannah bonds with Bailey to untangle this mystery.
Drops of God
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 21 April
Modern streaming allows stories from around the world to enter spaces formerly reserved for the English language. And the surge of audiences flocking to these shows and movies – overcoming the one-inch barrier of subtitles, as Parasite director Bong Joon-ho put it – creates greater innovations in storytelling. Apple TV+ has specialised in series that cross-pollinate between countries, like the French-English thriller Liaison and the family saga drama Pachinko (rated as the best show of 2022 by Culture Whisper).
The latest multilingual example is Drops of God, which flicks between English, French and Japanese for an oddball wine drama based on a famous manga comic. The wealthy French oenologist Alexandre Léger dies in his house in Tokyo, leaving behind his wine empire to his estranged Parisian daughter Camille (Fleur Geffrier). But there’s a catch: to win the fortune, she must compete against Alexandre’s young prodigy Issei Tomine (Tomohisa Yamashita) in an epic wine-tasting duel.
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 12 May
One difficulty of having a disability is the ableist motivation to hide it. It's even harder when you’re one of the biggest screen stars on the planet. Michael J Fox was and is an unforgettable presence in movies and TV, shooting the time-travelling classic Back to the Future and the Emmy-winning sitcom Family Ties at around the same time. At the age of 29, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and went into several years of denial before finally going public in 1998. Since then, he’s started the Michael J Fox Foundation – raising over $1.5 billion for Parkinson’s research.
This new documentary, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), looks at Fox’s story: capturing his glorious heyday in the 1980s and leading into the secrecy and gradual acceptance of his disability.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Apple TV+ release date: Friday 20 October
Photo: Apple
Increasingly, established filmmakers are turning to streaming services to deliver the movie they want. For a time, Netflix was the key digital venue: embracing figures like Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story), Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog), Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), and Charlie Kaufman (I’m Thinking of Ending Things). Martin Scorsese is among them with his three-and-a-half-hour gangster epic The Irishman. But like Joel Coen, Sofia Coppola and Todd Haynes, Scorsese is turning to Apple TV+ for his new, four-hour Western Killers of the Flower Moon.
Premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the film is based on the non-fiction book by David Grann and investigates a series of murders in Osage County, Oklahoma, in the 1920s. Killers of the Flower Moon reunites Scorsese not only with his classic leading man Robert De Niro, but also his more recent star Leonardo DiCaprio – performing alongside Jesse Plemons and Brendan Fraser.
Napoleon
Apple TV+ release date: TBC, late 2023
Photo: Apple
Following Martin Scorsese’s example (see above), Gladiator director Ridley Scott also joins the shelves of Apple TV+ with his battle-heavy biopic Napoleon. This is actually one of two adaptations of the French emperor’s life, the other being an HBO series directed by Steven Spielberg from the infamously unfinished Stanley Kubrick film. But Scott’s interpretation is coming first, released in cinemas on Wednesday 22 November before coming to Apple TV+ on a date not yet announced.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Napoleon Bonaparte, starring alongside Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) as the emperor’s great love Josephine. The film traces Napoleon's origins and swift ascension to power via his toxic and passionate relationship with Josephine. All the Money in the World screenwriter David Scarpa tackles the script.
The full Apple TV+ slate:
Wednesday 5 April
Schmigadoon, season 2
Friday 7 April
Boom Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
Friday 14 April
Jane
The Last Thing He Told Me
Friday 21 April
Big Beasts
Drops of God
Ghosted
Friday 28 April
Frog and Toad
Friday 5 May
Harriet the Spy, season 2
Silo
Friday 12 May
City on Fire
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Wednesday 17 May
High Desert
Friday 19 May
Stillwater, season 3
Monday 22 May
Prehistoric Planet, season 2
Wednesday 24 May
Platonic
June, date TBC
Swagger, season 2
Wednesday 12 July
The Afterparty, season 2
Friday 20 October
Killers of the Flower Moon
TBC
Argylle
Lessons in Chemistry
Napoleon
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