‘High Wire’: All the Details on Apple TV’s Upcoming Crime Thriller

Get ready for a tense adventure Down Under on Apple TV. The streamer is bringing Candice Fox’s High Wire to screen life soon, and it sounds like a must-watch thriller in the making.

Here’s what we know about High Wire so far.

What is High Wire about? 

The series adapts the 2024 novel of the same name by Fox. The description for the book tells us, “You only take the High Wire if you’re desperate – or up to no good. A notorious unmarked track through outback Australia, the ‘Wire’ crosses slabs of lawless land, body dumping grounds and mobile phone blackspots. Harvey Buck is certainly desperate. Racing to be with his dying girlfriend, he encounters Clare Holland, whose car has broken down. He offers the hapless traveller a ride… and then their nightmare begins. The pair are ambushed by a vengeful crew — and strapped into bomb vests. As part of a deadly game, Harvey and Clare are forced to commit a series of increasingly murderous missions, or else be blown to smithereens. Senior Sergeant Edna Norris is dealing with a runaway teenager; not an unusual job in a place where people go to disappear. But an unfolding crime spree turns this outback cop’s night into a fight for survival. Hot on Harvey and Clare’s trail, Edna finds a burnt-out car, a missing woman, a bank robbery, and a bullet-riddled body. And this road trip from hell has only just begun…”

Critics praised the book as “riveting, moody, and brimming with suspense” and said the story left them “surprised by the final twists and turns.”

Who will star in High Wire?

A cast for the series has not yet been revealed, but what we do know is that Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is going to produce, with Simonne Overend executive-producing. Fox herself said of the acquisition, “The Scott Free and Apple teams, as well as Steve Fisher, Simonne Overend, Gaby Naher … I’ve got the best crew that any author could ask for.”