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MGM+ has picked up an internationally financed play bid starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and J.K. Simmons.
The streamer has bought Embassy, which was created by fledgling writer Rom Lotan, for nan U.S. and a slew of world territories.
It comes nine months aft Stuart Ford’s AGC Television launched nan bid astatine Mipcom. The show was financed and produced by Ford’s cognition and produced pinch Ascendant Fox and Turbine Studios.
Embassy stars Kendrick arsenic Layla a crisp and resourceful American diplomat, who faces an intolerable choice: protect nan U.S. Ambassador aliases travel his orders to exfiltrate a precocious worth plus being held astatine nan embassy aft equipped mercenaries large wind nan U.S. Embassy successful London. As a larger conspiracy unfolds, Layla must trust connected her instincts—and nan reluctant thief of her ex-fiancé, a British SAS soldier—in nan tense hours earlier extraction.
Simmons plays nan U.S. Ambassador and Heughan plays nan ex- fiancé.
MGM+ will besides watercourse nan bid successful Italy, Spain, Italy, Belgium, nan Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina.
The bid was changeable successful Cologne, Germany and London, England.
John Strickland (Bodyguard) and Christian Alvart (Case 39) direct. Exec producers see Lotan, Strickland, Ascendant Fox’s Hester Ruoff, Bart Ruspoli and Matt Mitchell, Turbine’s Daniel Hetzer, Jakob Neuhausser, Justin Thomson and David Tanner, and AGC’s Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr.
AGC International distributes internationally and has already sold nan show to Amazon successful nan UK, Ireland, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand and ZDF for Germany.
“Embassy is an breathtaking summation to nan MGM+ slate—a high-octane six-part thriller pinch an exceptional formed and imaginative team,” said Michael Wright, world caput of MGM+. “Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan, and J.K. Simmons, on pinch bid creator Rom Lotan and board John Strickland and Christian Alvart, person created a cinematic thriller that reinforces MGM+ arsenic a destination for classical storytelling for a modern audience.”
