by Alex Billington
March 19, 2024
Source: YouTube
"You can save her…" "How?" "You need all four. One dies, she dies." Netflix has unveiled a first look teaser trailer for a thriller series titled Supacell, arriving for streaming this summer. It's the next creation by the Blue Story director who goes under the moniker "Rapman", an urban London story about people with super powers who have to join together. "Find them, before it's too late." When a regular group of ordinary people from South London are gifted with superpowers, they find their new abilities have made them targets for a powerful entity. The series stars Tosin Cole as Michael, Nadine Mills as Sabrina, Eric Kofi Abrefa as Andre, Calvin Demba as Rodney, Josh Tedeku as Tazer, Adelayo Adedayo as Dionne, Rayxia Ojo as Sharleen, and Giacomo Mancini as Spud. There's only a little bit of footage in this first teaser, but enough to make me intrigued. Looks pretty cool. Might be worth a watch - keep an eye out for the next trailer soon.
Here's the first look teaser trailer for Rapman's series Supacell, direct from Netflix's YouTube:
Neflix's Supacell series is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki (Tosin Cole), to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves. Supacell is created and showrun by the British writer / filmmaker known as "Rapman" (aka Andrew Onwubolu), director of the hit film Blue Story previously, and a few other shorts. With writing by Rapman. And episodes directed by Rapman and Sebastian Thiel (Dreaming Whilst Black, Just A Couple, Riches). Produced by Joanna Crow and Mark Hedges. And executive produced by Anna Ferguson, Steve Searle, and Mouktar Mohammed. Supacell will be giving Black creatives the opportunity to break into the TV industry through the "Supacell Six" scheme. The initiative, founded by Rapman, New Wave and Netflix will give six chosen candidates the opportunity to grow in their chosen field through shadowing crew & access to experts in their field. Netflix will debut Supacell streaming on Netflix starting in June 2024 this summer. So who's down?