HAVING SPENT TWO decades of his career writing and producing genre films around other people’s characters, from the X-Men to Sherlock Holmes, Simon Kinberg made a monumental shift in 2021. With Apple TV+, Kinberg and David Weil (Citadel) created their own original episodic sci-fi epic in the shape of Invasion.
Featuring an international cast, including Golshifteh Farahani, Shamier Anderson, Shioli Kutsuna and, fleetingly, Sam Neill, season one of laid out the complicated, interconnected impact of a global aliengaining a desperately needed win by nuking the alien mothership.
