The time heist begins in Time Bandits’ first Apple TV Plus trailer

In the authoritative trailer for Time Bandits, the new Apple TV Plus series from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement seems to revel successful each spot of the dreamlike pseudo-reality of the 1981 movie it’s based on. The amusement focuses connected a young kid named Kevin (Kal-El Tuck) who finds a clip portal successful his country and links up with a set of time-hopping thieves. It’s acceptable to premiere connected July 24th for Apple TV Plus subscribers and runs for 10 episodes.

While the bid is an adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, the trailer makes it wide it’s besides its ain happening with antithetic characters, clip periods, and situations. The amusement controversially replaced the Time Bandits themselves, primitively played wholly by a formed of small people, with actors similar Lisa Kudrow and Rune Temte.

But the outfits and fantastical environments look similar, if overmuch cleaner than Gilliam’s cluttered (in a bully way) ocular style, and the whimsy seems mostly intact.

Besides Tuck, different Time Bandits stars see Lisa Kudrow, Rune Temte, Tadhg Murphy, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, and Kiera Thompson.