Oscar Isaac already has one intriguing Apple TV+ series on the way (“Bananas,” with Ana de Armas), but now he has another. Variety reports that the actor is set to star in “Stowaway,” about Colombian conman Juan Carlos Guzmán.
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Isaac will also executive produce the project, with Steven Levenson attached to help develop it. Veteran TV director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will direct the show’s pilot, although it’s unclear at this point how many episodes the series will be.
But the role of Guzmán sounds like quite the juicy one for Isaac, who will play the notorious globe-trotting grifter. The series follows Guzmán after he was discovered as a wheel-well stowaway on a cargo jet that landed in Miami in 1993, claiming to be a 13-year-old orphan. The reality was Guzmán was 17, with family in Florida and a mother at home in Bogota, Colombia, and the young man was lying about his circumstances.
“It was far from the last lie he would tell — or the most ridiculous,” reads the show’s logline. “Traveling the globe, donning one alias after another, he stole millions from the wealthy clientele staying at the world’s most exclusive hotels. Yet no matter how seamlessly he could assume the identity of his victims, Juan always found himself on the run — not just from Scotland Yard, the Las Vegas Police Department or Interpol, but from a past he seemed unable to fully escape.”
“Stowaway” sounds like quite the lead role for Isaac, but it’s his involvement in the show’s production that’s arguably more intriguing.  The series is now the second sale in four months between Apple TV+ and Isaac’s banner Mad Gene Media after “Bananas,” which sees David O. Russell direct the actor and de Armas. Could it be the beginning of a long-standing partnership? Other executive producers via Mad Gene Media include Elvira Lind and Gena Konstantinakos, as well as Drew Comins via Creative Engine, journalist Matthew Bremnber, Levenson and Gomez-Rejon.
Other upcoming projects for Isaac include “The King Of Kings,” Julian Schnabel‘s “In The Hand Of Dante” (another project the actor executive produces), and Guillermo Del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” at Netflix. Of those three, “The King Of Kings,” an animated film about Jesus Christ, arrives first, hitting theaters on April 11.
Stay tuned for more details about “Stowaway,” which should premiere on Apple TV+ sometime in 2026.