J.J. Abramsis taking his talents back to television withDuster, an all-new streaming series starringLostalumJosh Hollowayand Rachel Hilson (This Is Us,Winning Time). A previous action-packed teaser gave fansa good lookat what the show has to offer, but a new trailer confirms thatDustermay just be destined to become another streaming hit for Max. The series follows a getaway driver teaming up with a young agent determined to take down a crime syndicate.
Dusterjust got another high-speed preview that shows off the crime thriller that boasts an impressive cast and crew in front and behind the camera. Holloway plays a driver embroiled in a crime organization that becomes the target of a young agent played by Hilson. It seems circumstances have the unlikely allies teaming up to take down the head honcho, who seemingly played a role in the death of the driver’s brother. It’s a high-speed, stunt-filled trailer that has theLoststar getting in on the action in more ways than one. You can check out the trailer below.
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In addition to Holloway and Hilson, the cast ofDusterfeatures Keith David, Sydney Elisabeth, Greg Grunberg, Camille Guaty, Asivak Koostachin, Adriana Aluna Martinez, and Benjamin Charles Watson. Behind the scenes,Abrams serves as executive producerafter co-writing the first two episodes alongside LaToya Morgan, who also produces.Ahsokadirector Steph Green helmed two episodes of the Max series, as well as serving as an executive producer. The official logline forDuster:
“Set in the 1970s Southwest, DUSTER explores the life of a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate that goes from dangerous to wildly, stupidly dangerous when a tenacious young agent comes into town hellbent on taking his crime family down.”
J.J. Abrams Reveals How He Came Up With ‘Duster’
In many ways,Dusteris influenced by the 70s crime films that came before it. However, the new series was derived from an image that was imprinted in the creative mind behindDuster. J. J. Abramsrevealedthat the idea for the Max show came from him imagining a man driving up to a phone in the middle of the desert and picking it up to retrieve his next mission. From there, the plot ofDusterwas born as a wide-ranging crime thriller that involves far more than one guy in a car.
“I had this image of a phone in the middle of the desert and a car driving up, and a guy getting on the phone to find out where he was meant to go next. It implied some kind of crazy intrigue, and I didn’t know what the answer was, but I knew it was compelling.”
Abrams collaborated with LaToya Morgan to fill out the details and the actual narrative, which started with finding out who the driver might be and how an FBI agent would get involved. The filmmaker wanted to tell a “crazy story,” and it seemsDusteris the ultimate manifestation of that initial idea.
“LaToya and I started talking about who this guy might be. I always knew there would be an FBI agent who showed up. But it wasn’t until we started talking about what her story is, that we started building this story towards something that felt twisty and turn-y and ultimately really satisfying.”
Source:Max
