EXCLUSIVE: High Video has swooped for rights to Embassy, the action-thriller collection starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and J.Okay. Simmons, in six territories.
The streamer landed rights in the United Kingdom, Eire, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand for the six-part AGC Tv collection, which is about to release subsequent yr. AGC, Ascendant Fox and Turbine Studios are making the display, which AGC World is buying groceries the world over, with Hannah Blyth from High Video’s UK acquisitions group licensing it for Amazon.
We’ve additionally were given phrase taking pictures has begun in Cologne and London, and feature further casting information.
Aleksandar Jovanovic (The Gold, Souls), Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack, Wolf Corridor), Mitya Savelau (3 Frame Drawback, The Crown), Hasan Akil (Reminiscence Field, A Unhappy and Stunning Global), James Murray (Masters of the Air, The Crown), Luke Treadaway (Unbroken, The Serial Killer’s Spouse), Stephen Odubola (Boiling Level, Blue Tale), Katie McGrath (The Ex-Spouse, Supergirl), Alexander Karim (Gladiator 2, Swarm) and Natalie Mendoza (Jack Ryan, Ánnette) at the moment are onboard.
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Best row: Aleksandar Jovanovic, James Murray, Alexander Karim; 2nd row: Natalie Mendoza, Katie McGrath, Lydia Leonard; backside row: Luke Treadaway, Stephen Odubola, Hasan Akil
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The geopolitical mystery has been development buzz since simply sooner than MIPCOM Cannes, when it used to be introduced Girl of the Hour famous person Kendrick and Whiplash Oscar winner Simmons have been signed directly to entrance the undertaking, which AGC and BondIt Media Capital are co-financing. Outlander famous person Heughan joined quickly after.
The collection follows Layla (Kendrick), a pointy and resourceful American diplomat who faces an unimaginable selection to give protection to the U.S. Ambassador (Simmons) or apply his orders to exfiltrate a high-value asset when armed mercenaries hurricane the U.S. Embassy in London. She’s pressured to depend on her instincts and the reluctant lend a hand of her battle-hardened ex-fiancé, Connor Wright (Heughan), within the worrying hours sooner than extraction.
Embassy comes from author and writer Rom Lotan, with John Strickland and Christian Alvart directing for AGC Tv, the TV manufacturing and distribution arm of Stuart Ford’s unbiased content material studio AGC Studios; Boiling Level and Gassed Up maker Ascendant Fox; and Small Awl and Constellation company Turbine Studios. Lotan and Strickland are exec manufacturers along 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.
Even if this deal comes via High Video’s acquisitions group, the inside track of the pickup comes simply hours after Amazon printed it had employed Apple TV commissioner Oliver Jones as Senior Commissioner for UK Scripted. He’s beginning in Might and can relocate from L.A. again to London for the position, operating carefully with Nicole Clemens, VP, World Originals.