Raid

Raid is an action television film directed by Jennifer Phang from a script co-written with Steven S. DeKnight. The film stars Lynda Lynch, Anson Mount, Christopher MacDonald, Tawny Newsome, and Alice Krieg, and centers on an FBI agent who unclvers an alien invasion. The film was produced by ABC Signature, DeKnight Productions, and Blur Studio.
Phang wanted to wrote the film as "a story of the goverment not always being right or good" that "celebrated independent thinking". Filming took place in Toronto, Canada. The filmmakers decided to make use of mainly practical sets and effects in order to work around the film's TV budget.
== Synopsis ==
Jenny Roland is a young and excitable woman who recently joined the FBI, thinking of the organizatio as the key to solve the world's problems. Her train of thoigth gets derailed, however, when what seems to be a simply murder case turns into a fight to save the world from bee-like aliens, a situation the FBI has no idea how to solve and the goverment dosen't care on solving, leaving the world's fate enterily on her hands.
== Cast ==
* Lynda Lynch as Jenny Roland
* Lupita Nyong'o as Heidi DeRose
* Christopher McDonald as President Albert Mount
* Tawny Newsome as Chloe Simmons
* Alice Krueg as Bee Queen
* Anson Mount as Agent Robert
* Ethan Peck as Agent Bennet
* Dee Bradley Baker as Humanoid Bees
== Trivia ==
* Chloe Simmons and Agent Bennet were named after actors Chloe Bennet and Henry Simmons, while Albert Mount was named after Anson Mount.
* This is the first film produced by ABC Signature since 2016's Confirmation.