‘Nocturne’ Trailer: Liev Schreiber & Zazie Beetz vs. Stephen Graham in New Apple TV Thriller

If you’re a fan of thrilling crime dramas, Apple TV has another one coming to add to your list.

On Tuesday, September 29, the streaming service released the official trailer for Nocturne, starring Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz, and Stephen Graham. Schreiber plays an ex-soldier who becomes a detective and moves to a small town for a quieter life, only to, of course, find the complete opposite because of a serial killer, played by Graham.

In the video, which you can watch above, Jonah (Schreiber) goes to see Jurek (Graham), who’s locked in the basement of a psychiatric hospital, because the police and FBI, working together to find missing people, believe there are more victims and people are disappearing again, like before. But if you ask Jurek, he’s there “because I brought you here.”

They need someone to go undercover, and that’s where Jonah’s surrogate daughter, Saga (Beetz), comes in, despite his obvious hesitations. “You’re way too close,” Jonah argues. “You know what he’s done. You know what he’s capable of. He has a way of getting to people. He figures out who you are, you don’t come back.” Still, she goes in, taking residence in the room next to Jurek’s. “They say he can walk through walls, but you know his real power? Getting in your head,” she says.

Read on for everything we know so far about Nocturne, including when it will premiere, the Lars Kepler books on which it’s based, and more.

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When does Nocturne premiere?

Nocturne will premiere on Friday, October 30, with the first two episodes. The rest of the 10-episode season will be released weekly on Fridays. The finale is set to drop on Christmas, December 25.

Who stars in Nocturne?

In addition to Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz, and Stephen Graham, Nocturne stars Bill Camp, Rory Culkin, Chrissy Metz, Poorna Jagannathan, and Gary Carr.

The drama is created for television, written, and executive produced by Rowan Joffe, and developed for television, written, executive produced, and showrun by John Hlavin. Also serving as executive producers are Schreiber, Beetz (via her Sleepy Poppy production company), Tim Van Patten (director of the first two episodes), author Lars Kepler (he pseudonym for husband-and-wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril), Øystein Karlsen, David Rysdahl, Dorothy Fortenberry, and Niclas Salomonsson. Julie Herrin serves as co-executive producer. Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson executive produce for A+E Studios. Heather Kadin, Peter Micelli, and Jack Whigham executive produce for Range Studios.

What is Nocturne about?

Nocturne follows “Jonah Lynn (Schreiber), an ex-soldier turned homicide detective who, tired of working the tough streets of Philadelphia, moves to a small town in Western Pennsylvania for a quiet life. But, as the town and his family come under attack from the diabolically cunning serial killer Jurek Walter (Graham), Jonah must protect all that he holds dear. When the desperate search for Jurek’s last missing victim forces Jonah to send his surrogate daughter FBI Agent Saga Bauer (Beetz) up against Jurek, how far will Jonah go?”

Is Nocturne based on a book?

Yes! It’s actually based on two: Lars Kepler’s Lazarus and The Sandman, the seventh and fourth books, respectively, in their Killer Instinct series. (The series was previously titled Lazarus.)

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The synopsis for Lazarus reads: ” All across Europe, the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths. At first, it seems coincidental that their underworld affiliations are finally catching up to them. But when two of the victims are found to have disturbing connections to Detective Joona Linna, it becomes clear that there’s a single killer at work. Still, police are reluctant to launch an investigation. If a mysterious vigilante is making their jobs easier, why stand in his way? Joona, however, is convinced this is no would-be hero. These deaths serve a much darker purpose. Desperate for help, Joona turns to Saga Bauer. If his hunch is correct, she’s one of the few people who stands a chance at bringing this criminal mastermind down. But Saga is fighting her own demons—and the killer knows just how to use them to his advantage. He continues to strike with impunity, and no one, it seems, is safe. When the killer begins targeting those closest to Saga and Joona, it appears more and more likely that Joona has been right all along, and that tracking down the person responsible will force him to confront a ghost from his past … the most terrifying villain he’s ever had to face.”

The synopsis for The Sandman reads: “Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, now serving a life sentence in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman. Years ago, Detective Inspector Joona Linna made an excruciating personal sacrifice to ensure Jurek’s capture. He is keenly aware of what this killer is capable of, and now he is certain that Jurek has an accomplice. He knows that any chance of rescuing Mikael’s sister depends on getting Jurek to talk, and that the only agent capable of this is Inspector Saga Bauer, a twenty-seven-year-old prodigy. She will have to go under deep cover in the psychiatric ward where Jurek is imprisoned, and she will have to find a way to get to the psychopath before it’s too late–and before he gets inside her head.”

Is there a Nocturne trailer?

Yes, and you can watch it above.