Yes, Ilian is based on a Bulgarian man who was held hostage by Akkad during the attack. The real-life hostage, whose name was withheld from the media, was hailed as a hero. He was the one who fled ...

Netflix’s new hostage thriller draws from a high-stakes standoff in an Apple Store, but how much of it really happened?

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

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

Netflix’s iHostage dramatizes the real-life 2022 Apple Store siege in Amsterdam, turning a chilling hostage crisis into a ...

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

O n Feb. 22, 2022, a 27-year-old armed man entered the Apple Store in Leidseplein, Amsterdam, and held a customer at gunpoint ...

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

Dutch filmmaker Bobby Boermans’ dramatization of a tense hostage situation that played out in 2022, not far from his urban-Amsterdam home: Abdel Rahman Akkad walked into the Apple store in the ...

Watch iHostage on Netflix, a thriller based on a real Apple Store hostage case in Amsterdam. Learn how a 5-hour standoff and ...

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 ...