A new trailer has landed for The Fear Index, a new, four-part series coming to screens in the new year. The film stars Josh Hartnett as Dr Alex Hoffman, a technology genius who experiences a waking nightmare of the worst 24 hours of his life; alongside Arsher Ali (The Ritual, Informer) as Hugo, his hedge fund business partner and best friend; Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie, Innocent) as Gabby Hoffman; and Grégory Montel (Call My Agent) as Detective Leclerc.
The fast-paced four-part limited series is adapted by Paul Andrew Williams (Broadchurch) and Caroline Bartleet (Ticking) from Robert Harris’s novel, and is directed by David Caffrey (The Alienist, Peaky Blinders).
Dr Alex Hoffman is?launching?VIXAL-4?to investors?-?an?AI-driven system?that?exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. The promise is billions,?the rich are ready to get richer…?but this is not the day?Alex and?Hugo?had planned.?What follows is?a terrifying journey through the worst 24 hours?of?Alex’s life?-?cutting?across reality, memory and paranoid fantasy,??forcing?him?to?question everything he?sees?with his own?eyes.?
In the pulse of Geneva’s financial district,?Alex’s?sanity is shaken after he is?viciously?attacked at his home by a man?who?knows?all?of?his security codes.
After?more unexplained?occurrences,?Alex?becomes?convinced he’s being framed.?But?as secrets?surface?from his past, will anyone believe that he isn’t just losing his mind?
Detective?Leclerc?(Montel), assigned to Alex’s case,?struggles?to work this former CERN scientist out. Hoffman’s talented artist wife,?Gabby?(Farzad) might just be losing patience this time,?whilst Hugo’s only concern is the billion-dollar business on the line. Invention can be lonely,?and in a modern world of AI, capitalism and technological breakthroughs, Dr?Alex?Hoffman is about to learn the hard way how?destructive his creation might be…
The Fear Index comes to Sky Atlantic and NOW in February 2022.
Here’s the trailer.
