Apple TV lands thriller series starring Dakota Fanning

Untitled project will also see Dakota Fanning ( ) serve as executive producer alongside her sister, Elle Fanning ( ). Here’s what it’s about.

Just as that Apple landed the rights for the new show “in a competitive situation last year,” Apple published a press release outlining the plot as follows:

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.

The company also confirmed that in addition to starring, Dakota Fanning will also serve as an executive producer alongside Elle Fanning, Brittany Kahan Ward ( ), Julie Gardner ( ), and Kari Skogland ( ), who will also direct.

The untitled thriller is a Sony Pictures Television production, with distributing it exclusively. The deal further expands Apple and Sony Pictures Television’s ongoing relationship, which also includes , its upcoming spinoff , , , , , and .

As is usually the case with recently greenlit projects, there isn’t a release timeline yet. However, the show’s name should be announced sooner rather than later.

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