EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has swooped for rights to Embassy, the action-thriller collection starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and J.Ok. Simmons, in six territories.
The streamer landed rights within the UK, Ireland, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand for the six-part AGC Television collection, which is about to launch subsequent 12 months. AGC, Ascendant Fox and Turbine Studios are making the present, which AGC International is procuring internationally, with Hannah Blyth from Prime Video’s UK acquisitions crew licensing it for Amazon.
We’ve additionally received phrase capturing has begun in Cologne and London, and have extra casting information.
Aleksandar Jovanovic (The Gold, Souls), Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack, Wolf Hall), Mitya Savelau (3 Body Problem, The Crown), Hasan Akil (Memory Box, A Sad and Beautiful World), James Murray (Masters of the Air, The Crown), Luke Treadaway (Unbroken, The Serial Killer’s Wife), Stephen Odubola (Boiling Point, Blue Story), Katie McGrath (The Ex-Wife, Supergirl), Alexander Karim (Gladiator 2, Swarm) and Natalie Mendoza (Jack Ryan, Ánnette) are actually onboard.
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Top row: Aleksandar Jovanovic, James Murray, Alexander Karim; second row: Natalie Mendoza, Katie McGrath, Lydia Leonard; backside row: Luke Treadaway, Stephen Odubola, Hasan Akil
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The geopolitical thriller has been constructing buzz since simply earlier than MIPCOM Cannes, when it was introduced Woman of the Hour star Kendrick and Whiplash Oscar winner Simmons had been signed on to front the project, which AGC and BondIt Media Capital are co-financing. Outlander star Heughan joined soon after.
The collection follows Layla (Kendrick), a pointy and resourceful American diplomat who faces an not possible selection to guard the U.S. Ambassador (Simmons) or observe his orders to exfiltrate a high-value asset when armed mercenaries storm the U.S. Embassy in London. She’s pressured to depend on her instincts and the reluctant assist of her battle-hardened ex-fiancé, Connor Wright (Heughan), within the tense hours earlier than extraction.
Embassy comes from author and creator Rom Lotan, with John Strickland and Christian Alvart directing for AGC Television, the TV manufacturing and distribution arm of Stuart Ford’s unbiased content material studio AGC Studios; Boiling Point and Gassed Up maker Ascendant Fox; and Small Axe and Constellation agency Turbine Studios. Lotan and Strickland are exec producers alongside Ascendant Fox’s Hester Ruoff, Bart Ruspoli and Matt Mitchell; Turbine’s Daniel Hetzer, Jakob Neuhausser, Justin Thomson and David Tanner; and AGC’s Ford, Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr.
Although this deal comes by means of Prime Video’s acquisitions crew, the information of the pickup comes simply hours after Amazon revealed it had hired Apple TV commissioner Oliver Jones as Senior Commissioner for UK Scripted. He is beginning in May and can relocate from L.A. again to London for the position, working intently with Nicole Clemens, VP, International Originals.
