Prime Video Secures Rights To Thriller; More Cast Set
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video you could have swooped for rights to Embassythe action-thriller sequence starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and JK Simmons, in six territories.
The streamer landed rights within the UK, Ireland, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand for the six-part AGC Television sequence, which is ready to launch subsequent 12 months. AGC, Ascendant Fox and Turbine Studios are making the present, which AGC International is purchasing internationally, with Hannah Blyth from Prime Video’s UK acquisitions group licensing it for Amazon.
We’ve additionally received phrase taking pictures has begun in Cologne and London, and have further casting information.
Alexander 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 the 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, Annette) at the moment are onboard.
RELATED: 2026 TV Cancellations Photo Gallery: Series Ending This Year & Beyond
Top row: Aleksandar Jovanovic, James Murray, Alexander Karim; second row: Natalie Mendoza, Katie McGrath, Lydia Leonard; backside row: Luke Treadaway, Stephen Odubola, Hasan Akil
Serkan Sevindik, Marica Rose, Dia Dipasupil/Getty, Simon Harris, Courtesy
The geopolitical thriller has been constructing buzz since simply earlier than MIPCOM Cannes, when it was introduced Woman of the Hour star Kendrick and Whiplash Oscar winner Simmons have been signed on to front the projectwhich AGC and BondIt Media Capital are co-financing. Outlander star Heughan joined soon after.
The sequence follows Layla (Kendrick), a pointy and resourceful American diplomat who faces an unimaginable alternative to guard the US Ambassador (Simmons) or comply with his orders to exfiltrate a high-value asset when armed mercenaries storm the US Embassy in London. She’s pressured to depend on her instincts and the reluctant assist of her battle-hardened ex-fiancé, Connor Wright (Heughan), within the tense hours earlier than extraction.
Embassy comes from author and creator Rom Lotan, with John Strickland and Christian Alvart directing for AGC Television, the TV manufacturing and distribution arm of Stuart Ford’s unbiased content material studio AGC Studios; Boiling Point and Gassed Up maker Ascendant Fox; and Small Ax and Constellation agency 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.
Although this deal comes via Prime Video’s acquisitions group, the information of the pickup comes simply hours after Amazon revealed it had hired Apple TV commissioner Oliver Jones as Senior Commissioner for UK Scripted. He is beginning in May and can relocate from LA again to London for the position, working carefully with Nicole Clemens, VP, International Originals.