Apple TV+ released the full trailer for its limited series, Five Days at Memorial, based on the gripping true story of hospital, its staff, and patients surviving Hurricane Katrina, via Deadline. The series written by John Ridley and Carlton Cuse stars Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring, Hawkeye) Cherry Jones (Succession, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Cornelius Smith Jr (Grey’s Anatomy, Love, Take Two). View the full trailer below.
Based on the book by journalist Sheri Fink (“The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” “The Rationing of Last-Resort Covid Treatment”), Five Days details the events that occurred at a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina ravaged Lousiana in 2005. In the days following the storm’s initial hit, physicians and nursing staff were gripped with the morally grey decisions on how to adequately care for patients as equipment and resources expired. Choices made that day led to charges of alleged homicide as 45 deceased patients were recovered.
In addition to Farmiga, Jones, and Smith Jr., Deadline reports the cast includes W. Earl Brown (Deadwood, Preacher), Julie Ann Emery (Better Call Saul, Catch-22), Michael Gaston (First Reformed, The Man in the High Castle), Molly Hager (Botox Angels, It’s Kind of a Funny Story), Robert Pine (Lakeview Terrace, 9-1-1: Lone Star), and Adepero Oduye (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Big Short). ABC Signature is the producing studio under Disney Television Studios.
According to Deadline, Ridley and Cuse will executive produce and share directing duties with Wendy Stanzler. Ridley is an Emmy and Oscar-winning writer and director known for ABC’s American Crime and the 2014 Best Picture winner, 12 Years a Slave. Cuse is an Emmy-winning writer, director, and producer whose works include Lost, Jack Ryan, Colony, and Bates Motel. Stanzler is an established director with credits spanning from Apple TV+’s For All Mankind and the CW’s Arrow to comedy Ugly Betty and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.
Five Days at Memorial will debut its three first episodes on August 12. The eight-episode series will then release weekly every Friday through September 16.