Briana Middleton to star in Sam Esmail’s Metropolis series on Apple TV Plus
She is expected to play a new character who is not in the original film

Briana Middleton Photo: Amy Sussman
We’re a few dozen months short of it being a cool 100 years since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premiered, and Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail is preparing to adapt the film (and the 1925 novel it was based on) into a new series for Apple TV Plus. It’s been about a year since there was last news on this, but now—much like the harrowing forward march of progress, wherein the working man is crushed under the weight of the ruling class’ greed—there seems to be some actual progress happening for Esmail’s Metropolis.