Andrew Garfield Set to Play Sir Richard Branson in New Limited Series

Andrew Garfield at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards
Andrew Garfield at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Variety/REX/Shutterstock (9708049d)

Adam Garfield is set to continue his practice of portraying real-life characters on screen. 

Over the last year, Garfield has stepped into the shoes of Rent creator Jonathan Larson in the Netflix film Tick… Tick… Boom!, as well as televangelist Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. His most recently announced role may be his most famous yet. 

The Spider-Man: No Way Home actor is set to star as Sir Richard Branson in an upcoming limited series. Branson is best known for having founded the Virgin Group and has an estimated worth of $5.7 billion. 

The 6-part series will be based on the book Dirty Tricks which chronicled the battle between Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways and British Airways. In an attempt to smother their competition in 1994, BA published a negative article about Virgin, for which Branson sued them for libel. An out-of-court settlement awarded the entrepreneur £3.5 million. 

The limited series has been dubbed Hot Air and will be helmed by David Leitch who directed Deadpool 2. It will mark Garfield’s return to acting as he stated earlier this year that he planned to take a break.