When J.J. Abrams' seminal supernatural survival series Lost celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, three things happened. Firstly, all 121 episodes of the show were dropped on Netflix, ready to confound and captivate a whole new generation. Secondly, a whole lot of folks (us included) were reminded why we still have to go back, even after all these years. And thirdly, we found ourselves desperately hoping Abrams would make his long overdue small screen comeback sooner rather than later. And that's exactly what he's doing with Duster, a 70s set action series in which J.J.'s Lost collaborator Josh Holloway — aka Sawyer — plays a getaway driver enlisted by the FBI's first Black female agent (Rachel Hilson) to help take down a Keith David led crime syndicate. Sounds pretty cool, right? Looks pretty cool, too. Check out the trailer below;
Holy smokes — now that's what you call a trailer! If all the sex, violence, seventies shades, and classic cars don't immediately scream J.J. Abrams in this first look at Duster, co-created by The Rise Of Skywalker director alongside LaToya Morgan (The Walking Dead), then you can at least rest assured that the twisty turny machinations of this throwback action thriller most assuredly do. And at the centre of said machinations is none other than our man Josh Holloway of course, whose charismatic wheelman Jim looks to be caught between a rock and a hard place here as he finds himself simultaneously working for Keith David's imposing mob boss Ezra "Sax" Saxon and being courted to rat him out by Hilson's tenacious fed Nina.
While Abrams has exec produced a bunch of projects since his last Star Wars rodeo almost six years ago (Presumed Innocent, Batman: Caped Crusader, and Lovecraft Country to name just a few), Duster — which premieres on Max in the US on 15 May, and will hopefully hit screens here soon after — marks the filmmaker's first writing assignment since his return from a galaxy far, far away. Who knows? Maybe 20 years from now we'll find ourselves still trying to unspool the mysteries of Duster, concocting crackpot theories about how a crime syndicate in the American Southwest of 1972 connects to the fate of the survivors of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815. Red string at the ready, folks...