(L to R) Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett in ‘Smoke,’ premiering June 27, 2025 on Apple TV+.
Preview:
- Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett feature in the first images from new Apple TV+ drama ‘Smoke.’
- Dennis Lehane is writing the show.
- It adapts the acclaimed podcast ‘Firebug.’
Taron Egerton continues to be a busy man, and has been adding more projects where he’s a producer as well as star.
He’s also back with Apple TV+, where he found success with ‘Black Bird,’ and this time he’s found a project that is –– pun entirely intended and unapologetically deployed –– hot.
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‘Smoke’ is a new crime drama that will see Egerton in a lead role alongside ‘The Order’s Jurnee Smollett.
The eight-episode new series will see them digging into a complicated arson case (more on that below).
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What’s the story of ‘Smoke’?
Greg Kinnear in ‘Smoke,’ premiering June 27, 2025 on Apple TV+.
‘Smoke’ follows a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator as they pursue the trails of two serial arsonists.
Egerton stars as the man with the talent for digging into fire crimes, Dave Gudsen, while Smollett is police detective Michelle Calderone.
Perhaps most excitingly, especially to crime genre fans, the show has writing legend Dennis Lehane crafting all the episodes. Lehane, of course, already worked on ‘Black Bird’ with Egerton.
And like that, this is inspired by a true story. Here, it’s a fictional tale inspired by truth.media’s acclaimed ‘Firebug’ podcast, which was hosted by Oscar and Emmy-winner Kary Antholis.
On the directing side of things, Kari Skogland (who produces alongside Egerton and Lehane), Joe Chappelle, and Jim McKay will call the shots.
Who else appears in ‘Smoke’?
(L to R) John Leguizamo and Anna Chlumsky in ‘Smoke,’ premiering June 27, 2025 on Apple TV+.
The cast of also features Rafe Spall, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Anna Chlumsky, Adina Porter, Greg Kinnear and John Leguizamo.
What else is Taron Egerton working on?
Taron Egerton in ‘Smoke,’ premiering June 27, 2025 on Apple TV+.
Egerton is typically in demand at the moment –– he was last on screens in Netflix airport thriller ‘Carry-On’ and has a few projects on the go in addition to ‘Smoke.’
He recently shot director Nick Rowland’s movie ‘She Rides Shotgun,’ about a girl who is marked for death and must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows: her father.
The film, an adaptation of Jordan Harper’s award-winning novel, will see Egerton as Nate the father figure, a former gang member whose old cohorts put a hit on his family when he gets out of prison.
There’s also a new action movie from filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur called ‘Apex’, with Charlize Theron as an adrenaline junkie who sets out to conquer a menacing river, only to discover that nature isn’t the only thing out for blood. Egerton is filming that one right now, with Eric Bana also in the cast.
And finally, we have the ever-present possibility of a third ‘Kingsman’ movie, with Matthew Vaughn aiming to wrap up his spy trilogy with ‘Kingsman: The Blue Blood.’
Yet following some financial flops for the director, the 20th Century Studios team seemed to indicate that we might not see the final ride for Egerton’s Eggsy and Colin Firth’s Harry Hart.
But Egerton has been more positive on the subject, saying this to Screen Rant:
“I don’t know, and I don’t want to speak out of school, but I don’t think that necessarily means that we won;t do it. I think Matthew and I very much want to do one more. I want to do one more. And so while, you know, we don’t have a shoot date yet, I think it could still happen.”
That said, we’ve yet to see real forward movement, so file this under “maybe” for now.
Where else can we see Jurnee Smollett?
Jurnee Smollett in ‘Smoke,’ premiering June 27, 2025 on Apple TV+.
Smollett, who was most recently found in another law enforcement role, this time with the FBI, in ‘The Order.’
Coming up, she is preparing to work on ‘Sunflower,’ a new thriller about two women struggling to escape from a college professor who holds them hostage on a prison-like sunflower farm.
Scott Speedman is co-starring in that movie, which comes from writer/director Misha Green, who worked with Smollett on ‘Lovecraft Country.’
When will ‘Smoke’ arrive on the Apple TV+ service?
Apple has confirmed that the first two episodes will launch on Friday, June 27th, with a new episode weekly until the finale on August 8th.
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