Anne Hathaway to Star Opposite Jared Leto in Apple’s WeWork Limited Series
Series gets official greenlight at Apple TV+Tim Baysinger | January 29, 2021 @ 9:15 AM Last Updated: January 29, 2021 @ 9:41 AM
Apple TV+ has officially ordered its limited series on the rise and fall of start-up WeWork. Anne Hathaway will co-star opposite Jared Leto in the series, titled “WeCrashed.”
Leto will play WeWork founder Adam Neumann while Hathaway will play his wife and co-founder, Rebekah Neumann.
“WeCrashed” is from Drew Crevello and “Little America” co-creator Lee Eisenberg. It is based on Wondery’s podcast of the same name.
Hosted by veteran radio journalist David Brown, the podcast “WeCrashed” told the story of WeWork’s dramatic rise as a history-making start-up to its shocking decline under its charismatic CEO. Wondery’s Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy and Aaron Hart will also serve as executive producers on the limited series adaptation.
The Downtown Development Authority hopes to drive more people downtown with a proposed outdoor event space, but it comes with the trade off of less parking.
As the DDA went through the process of developing a new downtown plan and speaking with business owners, it became clear that more events in the downtown area would be beneficial to businesses, DDA Executive Director Brandon Stam said. The downside was that in order to hold events, it needed to shut down Main Street, which is not always popular with the business community.
âThe plaza (proposal) was something that kind of came in thinking about the future of downtown,â Stam said. âThe challenge we have with events is people want to see more events downtown, but the merchants on Main Street donât necessarily want to see Main Street shut down more.â