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Fantastic Four: First Steps helmer Matt Shakman has been tapped to nonstop nan aviator and 3 further episodes of Paramount+‘s Discretion, starring and executive produced by Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning.
Shakman besides will executive nutrient nan ineligible thriller, from A24, which landed astatine Paramount+ last October successful a very competitory business pinch a straight-to-series order. Production is group to statesman later this year.
Discretion is written and executive produced by The Husbands writer Chandler Baker based connected his fictional short story. In it, Lenny (Fanning), a summertime subordinate astatine a prestigious Dallas rule firm, uncovers a web of NDAs masking a acheronian truth. When she realizes she signed nan aforesaid agreement, her discoveries put her successful nan crosshairs of nan firm’s astir powerful female partner Sharon (Kidman)—upending their mentor-protégé move and raising nan question: who gets to support secrets, and astatine what cost?
The bid is executive produced by Baker; Shakman; Susannah Grant; Kidman and Per Saari via Blossom Films; Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward via Lewellen Pictures; Joe Hipps via A24-based Cut To; and Jordan Cerf via Linden Entertainment.
This marks a reunion for Shakman and Elle Fanning; he previously helmed nan aviator section for Hulu’s The Great starring Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, which sewage him a directing Emmy nomination.
Shakman precocious wrapped nan aviator and finale of Apple TV’s Wild Things, starring Jude Law and Andrew Garfield arsenic famed duo Siegfried & Roy. He antecedently directed The Fantastic Four: First Steps and earned an Emmy information for directing nan Marvel Studios Disney+ series WandaVision. His caller activity includes helming pilots for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Consultant and Welcome to Chippendales. Shakman, who is group to nonstop an untitled Planet of nan Apes movie astatine 20th Century, is repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
