While most real-life events deemed worthy of a Netflix adaptation tend to take place in the distant past, director Bobby ...

Hostage' is a Dutch thriller film inspired by the real-life 2022 hostage crisis at an Amsterdam Apple Store, directed by Bobby Boermans and written by Simon de Waal.

The movie is closely based on the true story of a hostage crisis that unfolded at an Apple Store in central Amsterdam on Feb.

The Dutch thriller iHostage, which premiered globally on Netflix on April 18, has rapidly climbed the platform's trending ...

Bobby Boermans, who lives near the Apple store in Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square, still remembers the surreal sequence of events that unfolded on the night of Feb. 22, 2022. Boermans ...

Inspired by the Apple Store hostage incident that took place in Amsterdam in 2022, Netflix’s iHostage is a Dutch thriller ...

Director Bobby Boermans lives near the actual Apple store where the crime took place and was inspired by the peculiar nature of the events. During an April 2025 conversation with TIME, he shared that ...

Bobby Boermans, director of Netflix’s new thriller iHostage, lives near the store and remembers that surreal night. “Fortunately, hostage situations like this are scarce in the Netherlands.

Director Bobby Boermans lives near the scene of the actual incident and witnessed the news story as it unfolded at the time. The plot of the film mostly follows what occurred in real life ― an armed ...

iHostage is a Dutch crime thriller written by Simon de Waal and directed by Bobby Boermans. The film is based on the real-life 2022 hostage situation at an Apple Store in Amsterdam, where a man ...