Ever since being forged as Loki within the first Marvel’s Thor film again in 2011, Tom Hiddleston has been one of many busiest actors in Hollywood. He’s dominated the large display in each Marvel and non-Marvel films and the identical will be stated for the small display as properly. After starring within the Loki sequence on Disney Plus, he returned for the second season of the British sequence The Evening Supervisor, the primary season of which had aired again in 2016. Now, Hiddleston’s subsequent streaming enterprise has been confirmed, and it will likely be on Apple TV.
Hiddleston will co-star within the Apple TV movie Tenzing, a biographical movie about Tenzing Norgay, the Nepalese Sherpa who guided New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary once they grew to become the primary males to achieve the highest of Mount Everest. Hiddleston will play Hillary, whereas Chinese language actor Genden Phuntsok will star as Norgay. Willem Dafoe additionally stars as John Hunt, the British military officer who led the expedition to Everest.
“The journey of a lifetime”
The film was directed by Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom. This might be Peedom’s first narrative movie, although she has in depth expertise as a documentary filmmaker, notably with regards to mountaineering. She has directed the documentaries Miracle on Everest (2008), Sherpa (2015), Mountain (2017), and Mountain Quest (2021). For Tenzing, Peedom filmed round Mount Everest, together with the Nepalese metropolis of Kathmandu.
“The extraordinary factor that Jen has carried out is she’s put us all within the setting,” Hiddleston stated in a 2025 interview with Josh Horowitz. “We have really simply spent a month in Nepal and I’ve spent a while within the Khumbu Valley and within the foothills of Everest and within the Himalayas.”
Hiddleston additionally referred to as the expertise “the journey of a lifetime,” as Everest has been a lifelong obsession for the actor.
It will likely be particularly fascinating to see how the movie depicts the second when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay attain the summit itself. Following the well-known expedition, there was quite a lot of hypothesis as to who reached the highest first. Whereas Sir Edmund Hillary received many of the consideration, notably from Western information retailers, each males refused to say who stepped on the very best level first within the 1953 expedition. Nonetheless, Norgay would ultimately reveal that it was Hillary who took that first step onto the highest of Everest.
When will Tenzing come to streaming?
Earlier than heading to Apple TV, Tenzing may have a short theatrical launch first. The film will debut on September 15 on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. It’ll then hit choose theaters on October 9. Lastly, Tenzing will arrive on Apple TV per week later, on October 16.
Tenzing might be accessible to stream on Apple TV on October 16.