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EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has swooped for authorities to Embassy, nan action-thriller bid starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and J.K. Simmons, successful six territories.
The streamer landed authorities successful nan UK, Ireland, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand for nan six-part AGC Television series, which is group to motorboat adjacent year. AGC, Ascendant Fox and Turbine Studios are making nan show, which AGC International is shopping internationally, pinch Prime Video’s UK acquisitions squad licensing it for Amazon.
We’ve besides sewage connection shooting has begun successful Cologne, Germany and London, UK, and person further casting news.
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 nan 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 now onboard.
The geo-political thriller has been building buzz since conscionable earlier MIPCOM Cannes, erstwhile it was announced Woman of nan Hour prima Kendrick and Whiplash character Simmons were signed connected to beforehand nan project, which AGC is financing. Outlander prima Heughan joined soon after.
The bid follows Layla (Kendrick), a crisp and resourceful American diplomat, who faces an intolerable prime to protect nan U.S. Ambassador (Simmons) aliases travel his orders to exfiltrate a precocious worth plus erstwhile equipped mercenaries large wind nan U.S. Embassy successful London. She’s forced to trust connected her instincts and nan reluctant thief of her battle-hardened ex-fiancé, Connor Wright (Heughan), successful nan tense hours earlier extraction.
Embassy comes from writer and creator Rom Lotan, pinch John Strickland and Christian Alvart directing for AGC Television, nan tv accumulation and distribution limb of Stuart Ford’s independent contented workplace AGC Studios, Boiling Point and Gassed Up shaper Ascendant Fox and Small Axe and Constellation patient 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.
Though this woody comes done Prime Video’s acquisitions team, nan news of nan prime up comes conscionable hours aft Amazon announced it had hired Apple TV commissioner Oliver Jones arsenic Senior Commissioner for UK Scripted.
He is starting successful May and will relocate from LA backmost to London for nan role, moving intimately Nicole Clemens, VP, International Originals.
