Stan has released the first trailer for the Stan Original Series C*A*U*G*H*T marking actor Kick Gurry’s (Barons) directorial debut.
Premiering September 28 with all episodes at once, the new six-episode season brings together the biggest ensemble of Hollywood and home-grown talent an Australian original television production has ever seen.
C*A*U*G*H*T follows the Australian Minister of Defence (Erik Thomson) who texts a ‘secret file’ to the Princess of Behati-Prinsloo (no joke!), a small island nation, and sends four Australian soldiers (Gurry, Ben O’Toole, Alexander England and Lincoln Younes) into the war-torn country on a secret mission to retrieve the file.
Mistaken for Americans, they are captured by freedom fighters (Fayssal Bazzi, Mel Jarnson and Dorian Nkono) and produce a hostage video that goes viral. When the soldiers reach celebrity status on social media, they realise that being caught might just be the best thing that could’ve happened to them. They’re about to make search history.
Erik Thomson. Stan
Starring alongside Gurry, Thomson, O’Toole, Younes, England, Jarnson and Bazzi are Susan Sarandon (Blue Beetle), Travis Fimmel (Vikings) and Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey) as well as Sean Penn (Gaslit), Matthew Fox (Lost), Bryan Brown (Palm Beach), Rebecca Breeds (Clarice) and Bella Heathcote (Stan Original Series Scrublands).
Following a deal with Fremantle, the series is also due to launch exclusively on the new streaming service ITVX in the UK in October 2023.
The Stan Original Series C*A*U*G*H*T was created, produced and directed by Gurry while Penn executive produces alongside producers John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz (Stan Original Film Gold) from Deeper Water Films and Brendan Donoghue.
Executive producers Cailah Scobie and Amanda Duthie were also on board for Stan with the series produced in association with Fremantle.
The Stan Original Series C*A*U*G*H*T premieres September 28, all episodes at once and only on Stan.