Oscar nominee Stellan Skarsgård to star in untitled Apple TV thriller series

Update, 6:38 p.m. ET: reports that Daryl McCormack (Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) has also joined the untitled project. The original story follows below.

Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård ( ) is set to star alongside Dakota Fanning ( ) in an upcoming untitled international thriller series for Apple TV. Here’s what we know about it so far.

Earlier this year, Deadline reported that Apple had scored the distribution rights to a new thriller series, which would be produced by Sony Pictures Television, the same studio behind Apple TV shows such as , , , , , , and .

At the time, Deadline said that Dakota Fanning would star on the show, and would also act as executive producer alongside her sister, Elle Fanning ( ). The show will be directed by Kari Skogland ( ).

Now, Apple has confirmed that this year’s Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actor will join the show.

Here’s what to expect from the upcoming series, according to Apple:

Fanning will star as an undercover Treasury agent in a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate with world-changing political and criminal tentacles, who becomes conflicted between her mission and a belief that her principal target, the heir apparent to all that corrupt power, is at his core a good man and worthy of her love.

Like most early-stage projects, the series doesn’t have a release timeline yet. Its name, however, should be announced sooner rather than later.

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